In Mexico’s San Quintin valley, thousands of indigenous farmworkers are hired on a daily basis as a source of cheap and flexible labor. They endure long hours hand-picking produce in extremely hot temperatures for as little as 9 dollars a day and live in areas of difficult access where large families are crammed into small rooms in makeshift houses made of little more than cardboard and plastic, without electricity or running water. San Quintin is a photography project that documents the situation of migrant farmworkers in Mexico and addresses pressing social issues such as poverty, health and human rights violations. My intention is to denounce the inhumane living conditions that the farmworkers endure as a result of the miserable pay that they receive meanwhile the corporations they work for make millions by the sweat of these laborers’ brow.
