BIO

Photo: Leroy Hamilton

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. He is currently in post-production on ÒLast Days of the Four Seasons,Ó 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.

e-mail: rick at rcnphoto dot com