Photography exhibit For Another Land highlights H-2A seasonal farmworkers — The New Political

Photographer Milton Lindsay’s project For Another Land has been displayed by the School of Visual Communications across from Schoonover Center. The project is a series of images devoted to highlighting workers who are a part of the H-2A Seasonal Farmworker Visa Program, or farm workers from Mexico, who are granted a temporary visa to spend half of the year working on farms in the U.S. before returning to Mexico for the remaining months.Lindsay took the majority of the photos at a farm in North Carolina that utilizes the H-2A program. The project consists of photos grouped in sets of four along each walkway, each set of four representing a day in the life of a worker. In the center of the display are photos Lindsay took in Mexico. For the next phase of the project, he plans to look closer at the lives these workers lead in Mexico.“The workers have so much repetition and so much monotony in their lives that it’s the reality of their existence, so that was the theme I wanted to get across...