The Reality Check

Stories and Photographs by David Bacon

Saturday, June 13, 2026

photos from the edge 33 - WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN, HALF A CENTURY AFTER THE GRAPE STRIKE

›
photos from the edge 33 - WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN, HALF A CENTURY AFTER THE GRAPE STRIKE Photoessay by David Bacon Barn Raiser, June 18, 2026 h...
Monday, May 18, 2026

photos from the edge 32 - DANCING IN DARK TIMES

›
photos from the edge 32 - DANCING IN DARK TIMES By David Bacon Contexts - Sociology for the Public - Journal of the American Sociology Assoc...
Monday, May 11, 2026

photographs from the edge 31 - CALLING OUT FOR A BETTER SYSTEM

›
photographs from the edge 31 - CALLING OUT FOR A BETTER SYSTEM Photoessay by David Bacon Barn Raiser - 5/7/26 https://barnraisingmedia.com/o...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

MAY DAY - THE POINT IS TO HAVE A VOICE

›
MAY DAY - THE POINT IS TO HAVE A VOICE Photoessay by David Bacon American Community Media, 5/4/26 https://americancommunitymedia.org/immigra...
›
Home
View web version

About Me

davidbacon
David Bacon is a California writer and documentary photographer. A former union organizer, today he documents labor, the global economy, war and migration, and the struggle for human rights. His latest book, In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte (COLEF / UC Press, 2017) includes over 300 photographs and 12 oral histories of farm workers. Other books include The Right to Stay Home (Beacon Press, 2013).and Illegal People (Beacon Press, 2008), which discuss alternatives to forced migration and the criminalization of migrants. Communities Without Borders (Cornell/ILR Press, 2006) includes over 100 photographs and 50 narraatives about transnational migrant communities, and The Children of NAFTA (UC Press, 2004) is an account of worker resistance on the US/Mexico border in the wake of NAFTA.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.