Social / Labor

George Magazine, June 1996©. “Sugar Kings”.
U.S. Sugar Corporation, Clewiston, FL. February 1992©. “Back burn” on sugar cane fields prior to cutting.
U.S. Sugar Corporation, Clewiston, FL. February 1992©. Jamaican H-2A “cane cutters” begin cutting their first rows at sunrise.
U.S. Sugar Corporation, Clewiston, FL. February 1992©. ‘Ticket writer’ keeping records on each “cane cutters” rows.
U.S. Sugar Corporation, Clewiston, FL. February 1992©. Jamaican H-2A worker / cane cutter with personal bar-scan ID boarding the company bus.
U.S. Sugar Corporation, Clewiston, FL. February 1992©. Contracted H-2A workers / cane cutters leaving the fields on a USSC company bus.
U.S. Sugar Corporation, Clewiston, FL. March 1992©. H-2A workers/ cane cutters in barracks playing dominoes. Miami Locks Labor Camp.
U.S. Sugar Corporation, Clewiston, FL. March 1992©. Raw sugar, sugar crystals at Clewiston Sugar Mill.
Fields of Balm article. Icarus World Journal, 1991. An investigative piece on child labor and the use of pesticides. Children working in the tomato fields, Balm, FL. “Crew chief” watching from above. 1990©.
Fields of Balm article. Icarus World journal, 1991. Child picking tomatoes. Price set for each basket, Balm, Fl. 1990©.
Fields of Balm article. Icarus World Journal, 1991. Tomato pickers working by the basket. Children taking a sip of water from the back of a produce loading truck, being watched by “crew chief” atop. 1990©.
Fields of Balm article. Icarus World Journal, 1991. A farm shed left open in the celery fields containing spilt and leaking, highly toxic, “restricted-use” pesticides. Sarasota, FL. 1990©.
Fields of Balm article. Icarus World journal, 1991. Farmworker working by piece rate. Celery fields, Sarasota, FL. 1990©.
Fields of Balm article. Icarus World Journal, 1991. Farmworkers on lunch break. In the picking fields, no running water to wash off pesticide residue or use of toilet facilities. Wimauma, FL. 1990©.
Fields of Balm article. Icarus World Journal, 1991. Migrant farmworker housing – fenced and locked trailer camps. Wimauma, FL. 1990©.
Motorcycle Diaries, Sarasota Magazine, January 2005©. On the road in the Texas Hill country. Blanco, Texas.
Motorcycle Diaries, Sarasota Magazine, January 2005©. Waffle House, early morning in Mississippi.
Motorcycle Diaries, Sarasota Magazine, January 2005©. A cheap motel. $19.95, no phone, no TV, no pets. Blanco, Texas.
Motorcycle Diaries, Sarasota Magazine, January 2005©. A west Texas cross-road on the Pecos Trail, void of gasoline. Orla, Texas.
Motorcycle Diaries, Sarasota Magazine, January 2005©. A roadside bar with me sippin’ on a Bud listening to David Alan Coe on the juke box. Devil’s Backbone, Texas.
Motorcycle Diaries, Sarasota Magazine, January 2005©. Outside of Roswell New Mexico, on ranch land, looking for the fabled “alien debris field”.
Pentecostal Snake Handlers, Church of the Lord Jesus. Jolo, West Virginia. September 1993©. Rayford Dunn “testifying” to the congregation.
Pentecostal Snake Handlers, Church of the Lord Jesus. Jolo, West Virginia. September 1993©. Pentecostal “Oneness” where women traditionally wear their hair long with long print dresses. Women clapping and with tambourines, and a little bit of bible “thumping”.
Pentecostal Snake Handlers, Church of the Lord Jesus. Jolo, West Virginia. September 1993©. Rayford Dunn stoops to pickup several ‘timber rattlers’ that he dropped during a large group “handling”.
Pentecostal Snake Handlers, Church of the Lord Jesus. Jolo, West Virginia. September 1993©. Brother Dewey Chafin raises several “rattlers” as congregation members encircle him.
Pentecostal Snake Handlers, Church of the Lord Jesus. Jolo, West Virginia. September 1993©. With the band blaring at a fast tempo, a woman raises two intertwining rattlesnakes in an ecstatic state.
Pentecostal Snake Handlers, Church of the Lord Jesus. Jolo, West Virginia. September 1993©. Brother Carl Porter raises two rattlesnakes, during the band’s high tempo as a testament to his faith.
Pentecostal Snake handlers, Church of the Lord Jesus. Jolo, West Virginia. September 1993©. Brother Bob Elkins after services, in front of his pulpit with anointing oil and his personal bible.
Polish Government, Warsaw, Poland. January 1992©. Cabinet meeting with ministers at the State Department.
Polish Government, Warsaw, Poland. January 1992©. Prime Minister, Jan Olszewski, during a Cabinet meeting at the State Department.
Polish Government, Warsaw, Poland. January 1992©. “Council of Ministers” document used during Cabinet meeting.
Polish Government, Warsaw, Poland. January 1992©. Donald Tusk, KLD party leader, being interviewed by the national press.
Gdansk Shipyard, Gdansk, Poland. January 1992©. “Solidarity” slogan at the inside entrance to the Gdansk Shipyard.
Gdansk Shipyard, Gdansk, Poland. January 1992©. Shipyard spray painters putting the final coat on a Danish ship.
Gdansk Shipyard, Gdansk, Poland. January 1992©. Coal furnace at the shipyard.
Gdansk Shipyard, Gdansk, Poland. January 1992©. Machinist working on a lathe with a poster of the Solidarity leader, Lech Walesa in the background.
Gdansk Shipyard, Gdansk, Poland. January 1992©. A shipyard worker - Solidarity Union “shopfitter”.
Gdansk Shipyard, Gdansk, Poland. January 1992©. Halina Wrzosek, Solidarity Union Representative, speaking with shop machinists about the possible, yet probable, upcoming layoffs at the shipyard.