Lost Hills has all the romanticized hallmarks of rural American life: it''s a tight-knit, one stoplight town where the 2,000 residents work hard to grow crops and drill for oil that feed and fuel the country. But Lost Hills is at the precipice of an upheaval: the farms that employ over half of the townspeople are completely dependent on water unsustainably imported from the northern part of the state, via the vast California Aqueduct. And the employees who embody the virtues of the hard-working American citizen are mostly undocumented immigrants, working for below-market wages, kept in check by threats of deportation and a backlog of willing immigrant workers.
Los Angeles photographer Sam Comen's series The Lost Hills Project was recently selected as one of Critical Mass Top 50 for 2010.
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