In UNDOCUMENTED, photographer Roger Minick presents a personal look at the plight of undocumented farm- workers on one ranch in Southern California. Through minick’s lens we are taken into the camps, where we see the men’s faces up close, their daily lives, the back-breaking nature of their work; we see the friendships they evolve, their resourcefulness and diligence; and most of all we see their enduring humanity.

In his timely essay, Richard Steven Street discusses minick’s images in the context of the history of farmworker photography and recounts what it is like for an impoverished mexican or guatemalan to leave everything be- hind and walk, hitch, ride rails, to find work in “el norte.” He describes men who will work ten-hour days, six to seven days a week, for months, years, at labor that is back-breaking, underpaid, unappreciated. These are “liminal men,” writes Street, men caught between two worlds––the one they have left behind and the one in which they have found themselves attempting to survive.