69 Coachella

69 Coachella
At the height of the grape harvest, many workers eat and sleep next to their cars in two parking lots in Mecca, a small farm worker town in the Coachella Valley. The growers and government authorities do not provide housing for seasonal grape pickers. From left, Guadelupe Martinez Montezuma, Pedro Duran and Olegario Martinez come from Mexicali, on the US border 100 miles to the south, to pick grapes every year.

photographs and stories by David Bacon © 1990-1999

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