Steven Montalvo and I created Gold Mines In The Fields as a photographic biography of the men, women, and children who work long, hard hours in California's San Joaquin Valley to produce food for millions of others. In making the large-sized photographs for the project's museum exhibitions, both the Photoflex LitePanel and MultiDisc 5'n1 were really helpful, especially when shooting in the fields where we followed workers moving quickly up and down narrow rows of crops, and in farm labor camps where we could comfortably interview workers and family members. The Photoflex equipment enabled us to work in tight spaces and low lighting conditions without resorting to flash and the artificial, harsh light that could be distracting. |
