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Rick Nahmias
Rick Nahmias is a photographer, writer, and filmmaker whose work has been
shown across North America, Europe, and Asia. He creates special multi-media
image-based projects of all sizes for foundations, non-profits, corporations
and cause-driven organizations. He also shoots freelance assignments with an
emphasis on editorial, travel, medical and food subjects.
He is best known for documenting the lives and struggles of numerous
marginalized communities. His body of work exploring California's
agricultural workforce "The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm
Workers," became a traveling photography and bilingual text exhibition which
is touring museums, universities, and cultural centers across the country,
and was recently published by University of New Mexico Press. In addition to
his other work, Nahmias also teaches workshops and speaks publicly to
audiences ranging from school children, to colleges and professional
development organizations.
His work has been profiled and published in national magazines, journals and
newspapers such as The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. His work
has been presented on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, is
part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of American History
at the Smithsonian, and resides in several private and public collections
across the country.
As an Artist-in-Residence with LA Theatre Works he has created photo-essay
workshops on social justice and environmental issues. In recognition of "The
Migrant Project," he was awarded a U.S. Congressional Citation, and the
inaugural 2002-2003 Jason K. Stern Scholarship by the Julia Dean Photo
Workshops in Los Angeles. In recognition of his short film, "A Fate
Foretold," he was honored by Kodak as one of six up-and-coming filmmakers at
the Sundance Film Festival.
In 2006 premiered "Golden States of Grace: Prayers of the Disinherited," a
photographic, text and audio exhibit which documents eleven marginalized
communities at prayer, which will also be published by University of New
Mexico Press in 2009. He is currently in post-production on "Last Days of
the Four Seasons," which tells the story of the final years of the last
Catskill Mountains bungalow colony for Holocaust survivors. A graduate of
New York University and member of the American Society of Media
Photographers and the Writers Guild of America, he currently lives in Los
Angeles.
Ric Nahmias work is exclusively represented by ZUMA Press. To use his work editorially contact them : 949.481.3747.
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