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A photographic memory: How Joe Ramos captured the Mission’s cultural renaissance of the 70s and 80s

“I was a weird kid,” says Joe Ramos, laughing.  His words are not without reason. There weren’t many children his age — if any — photographing everyday life in a Salinas Valley labor camp.  Born in Salinas on June 21, 1949 and raised by a Filipino father and Mexican mother in the farmworker community of […]