Carlos Bernate

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Migrant Workers Restricted to Farms Under One Growers Virus Lockdown

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School: Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano

CHERITON, VA – Septem... Bernate for The New York Times

CHERITON, VA – September 26, 2020: Seasonal farmworker poses for a portrait in one of the many tomato fields in the remote Eastern Shore of Virginia. Seasonal farmworkers are brought by the thousands to toil in the tomato fields, since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, their conditions have worsened. Photo: Carlos Bernate for The New York Times

CHERITON, VA - September 26, 20... Bernate for The New York Times

CHERITON, VA - September 26, 2020: Barracks where agriculture workers stay during each season. Seasonal farmworkers are brought by the thousands to toil in the tomato fields, since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, their conditions have worsened. Photo: Carlos Bernate for The New York Times

CHERITON, VA – September 9, 2020: Seasonal farmworker pose for a portrait in one of the many tomato fields in the remote Eastern Shore of Virginia. Seasonal farmworkers are brought by the thousands to toil in the tomato fields, since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, their conditions have worsened. Photo: Carlos Bernate for The New York Times

CHERITON, VA – September 9, 2020: Seasonal farmworkers being brought in buses from the barracks where they live to the Food Lion at Cape Charles, VA to buy groceries. Seasonal farmworkers are brought by the thousands to toil in the tomato fields, since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, their conditions have worsened. Photo: Carlos Bernate for The New York Times

CHERITON, VA – September 9, 2020: Seasonal farmworker poses for a portrait in one of the many tomato fields in the remote Eastern Shore of Virginia. Seasonal farmworkers are brought by the thousands to toil in the tomato fields, since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, their conditions have worsened. Photo: Carlos Bernate for The New York Times

CHERITON, VA – September 26, 2020: Seasonal farmworker poses for a portrait near the beach in the remote Eastern Shore of Virginia. Seasonal farmworkers are brought by the thousands to toil in the tomato fields, since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, their conditions have worsened. Photo: Carlos Bernate for The New York Times

CHERITON, VA – September 9, 2020: Farmworkers walk several miles across abandoned train tracks to get to “El Ranchito Mexican Store”, one of two Latino stores in town. Seasonal farmworkers are brought by the thousands to toil in the tomato fields, since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, their conditions have worsened. Photo: Carlos Bernate for The New York Times

CHERITON, VA – September 26, 2020: Seasonal farmworker poses for a portrait on the abandoned train tracks that they walk to get to one of the two Latino stores in town. Seasonal farmworkers are brought by the thousands to toil in the tomato fields, since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, their conditions have worsened. Photo: Carlos Bernate for The New York Times

CHERITON, VA – September 9, 2020: Tomato fields in the remote Eastern Shore of Virginia. Seasonal farmworkers are brought by the thousands to toil in the tomato fields, since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, their conditions have worsened. Photo: Carlos Bernate for The New York Times

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Migrant Workers Restricted to Farms Under One Growers Virus Lockdown

Copyright Carlos Bernate 2024

Updated Nov 2020

Location Eastern Shore, VA

Topics Activism, Children, Discrimination, Documentary, Domestic Violence, Editorial, Human Rights, Immigration, Latin America, Migration, Photography, Photojournalism, Politics, Portraiture, Religion

Seasonal farmworkers being brought in buses from the barracks where they live to the Food Lion at Cape Charles, VA to buy groceries. Seasonal farmworkers are brought by the thousands to toil in the tomato fields, since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, their conditions have worsened.

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