For a number of reasons starting with coming from a union family, I have for most of my career worked in and around issues of labor, work, and the economy.
Many of these images were taken on assignment, or while on assignment for the mainstream press, most were shot for unions and the California Department of Industrial Relations.
I have always believed that there is a dignity to work, regardless of what the work is. That there can be a performance of the work in its grace and economy of action akin to dance.
