Kathya Maria Landeros is a photographer and educator who lives and works from her hometown of Sacramento, California. Her photographic work is informed by her bi-cultural upbringing and often explores Mexican-American identity and the immigrant experience. For over a decade, she has worked on long-term personal projects documenting Latino communities throughout California’s northern Central Valley and other parts of the American West. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, she has also photographed and lived in Mexico. She currently serves as a Fulbright Ambassador. Prior to earning a graduate degree in photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, she received an undergraduate degree in English literature and Hispanic studies from Vassar College. Today we share her series Verdant Land Verdant Land Within my family narrative there are many tales of hardworking kinfolk who emigrated from Mexico to the United States in search of work (my great-grandfather worked in the mines in Arizona; my grandfather was a Bracero, part of a bilateral government sanctioned agricultural work program; and my grandmother and parents worked as farmhands). This …
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