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Poor People’s Campaign 2018, by André Daughtry

In the summer of 2018, André Daughtry served as an official photographer for the Poor People’s Campaign during the 40 Days of Moral Action that took place in 38 state capitals. Drawing inspiration from the original campaign of 1968, spearheaded by Martin Luther King Jr., organizers sought to frame economic enfranchisement as an explicitly moral imperative, intimately linked to racial and other forms of social justice.

Sunday Morning II (left) and Friends in Freshness, by Narsiso Martinez

Narsiso Martinez, an artist based in Long Beach, California, gathers discarded boxes and uses them to tell the stories of Latinx workers in agribusiness. Martinez, who was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, uses this medium to chart his own history as a fruit picker in Washington. His aim is to start conversations about labor, racial economics, and fair pay. “I intend for these drawings to be the platform for discussion about inequities, and to point out the unfortunate circumstances of some social groups, like the farmworkers, in contrast to the people who are profiting from those circumstances.”

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