Voices From the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories

by S. Beth Atkin (Editor)

Photographs, poems, and interviews with children reveal the hardships and hopes of Mexican American migrant farm workers and their families.

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

S. Beth Atkin is a graduate of Barnard College and started a career as a photographer while assisting on photo shoots for publications including Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian. In 1988 she started a commercial and editorial photography business and moved to California. Her clients have included: Digital Equipment, Pebble Beach Company, Cellular One, National Geographic, San Francisco Chronicle, Cycle World, Houghton-Mifflin, Scholastic Inc., The U.S. Open, Nike, and The Nation.

Atkin lectures about youth issues, her books and photography, continues to do editorial photography and consults, volunteers, and donates her work to at-risk programs for youth and non-profit organizations.