Her Name is Elisia

“A nearly forgotten collection of old photographs of migrant farm workers in Washington State has resurfaced, enabling a lost history to be recovered. This is the story of the unearthing of this archive and the moving lessons the large archive teaches about “the awakening of a people.”

“Nash had developed an interest in documentary photography at an early age, and around the age of 13 he got his first camera. Later, he began working as a freelance photographer. Through involvement with the Council of Churches, Nash met a bilingual poverty worker who offered to take him around the migrant labor agricultural camps in the Yakima Valley.”