Documentary - CHASE CASTOR

Activist and fast-food worker, Nathan Wash, was arrested in front of a McDonald's during a sit-in organized by the Fight for $15 movement.

Nathan at the Puzder protest with Fight for $15.

Nathan in his small basement apartment in Kansas City, Kansas. Nathan works 2 jobs totaling 60hrs of work each week and still struggles to make ends meet.

Nathan shows off his globe and his favorite continent. In the background you can see a Hillary yard sign. During election season Nathan did work for the Hillary campaign.

Nathan gives the lay of the land around his apartment. He was a volunteer for Hillary campaign and still has many signs and stickers scattered around his apartment.

Nathan gives the lay of the land around his apartment. Hung in the window is one of the many Hillary campaign signs and stickers scattered around his apartment.

A Fight for $15 protest against Trump's first labor secretary nominee, and former Hardee's CEO, Andy Puzder.

My family owns a small cattle farm in rural Missouri that started out of competitive team roping but led to a new outlook on life. This is my dad letting the horses in to feed at the farm he's named 4-C (Four Bar C).

Preparing for some practice roping at his homemade arena. Aurora, Missouri

Preparing a syringe of antibiotic for a sick bull. The medicine will be shot out of a crossbow.

In the warmer months the bull's hide doesn't allow the mechanism on the tip of the syringe to push it out of the animal so, he has to remove it by hand to administer the remaining medicine.

Fun and play at grandpa's 80th birthday party.

Two shepherds bringing their sheep back from pasture.

High altitude farmland in the Guatemalan mountains.

A group of boys take a break on the side of the road. They're carrying enormous bundles of wood on their backs up that mountain.

Young farmers rinsing off carrots.

Rinsing a harvest of beets.

Transporting what I assume to be water back to her rural home.

Local Guatemalan women selling her crops at the food market.

A mother leader weighs children during a health checkup. Many Guatemalan children are malnourished, their mothers bring them to these checkups and receive meals for the kids.

The older kids play soccer behind the school where the checkups occur.

A mother with her meal packets.

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Over the past year activism has grown in Kansas City as people organize and take to the streets for their voices to be heard. Here a protester thanks an officer for his work after a Donald Trump Rally protest in Kansas City.

Protesters march Main Street in Kansas City outside the Donald Trump Campaign Rally.

A young man attempts to prevent a fight outside a Donald Trump Campaign Rally protest in Kansas City, MO.

Mexican and American flags fly at the protest. Many immigrants where present in opposition to Trump's immigration and refugee policies.

Yale takes feed to the goats during his morning chores. In the rural Kansas town of LaCygne Yale and Laura Averill frame a life around caring for goats, growing food and making ceramic wares.

The Averill's Angora goats and sheep. LaCygne, KSs

Yale made a walker/wheelchair for a goat with a spinal injury causing mobility issues with its back legs.

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Afraid the goat's mobility issues were due to malnutrition, Yale and Laura bottle feed the little one.

A busy weekend at the farmer's market. City Market, Kansas City, MO

City Market, Kansas City, MO

Street food vendor at City Market. Kansas City, MO

Young boy in suit. Pendleton Heights, Kansas City, MO

After school ice cream. LaCygne, Kansas local Boy Scout troop sells homemade ice-cream. From Land of Contemplation.

The brothers gather for morning prayer at Conception Abbey. Conception, MO

A friar gets breakfast at the abbey's cafeteria

Max's Burger's and Gyros. Kansas City, MO

A climber ascends the Virgin Wall next to a mural of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The canyon was once a place of worship for a Catholic brotherhood called Los Hermanos Penitente.

Cameron takes a rest and applies more chalk as his brother belays him from below. Penitent Canyon, Colorado

Worn and blackened hands from the rough rock and rope.

Taking a break in the shade.

Penitent Canyon, Colorado

Puerta Vallarta, Mexico

Puerta Vallarta bus.

Building hotels. Puerta Vallarta, Mexico

Construction worker. Puerta Vallarta, Mexico

Summer in south Kansas City.

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2015 was the first year for the Big Bike Across Missouri (Big BAM). This is a photo from a checkpoint along the multi-day ride. Many of the small towns threw carnival-like festivals for residents and riders. This young one shows off for cyclist as they take a lunch break.

Big BAM (Bike Across Missouri) morning checkpoint day 1

A rider rests at one of the checkpoints during Big BAM.

Charles Bradley performs at the first Eaux Claires music festival in Eau Claire, WI

Eaux Clairs festival goers. Eau Claire, WI

No BS! Brass Band. Eau Claire, WI

No BS! Brass Band perform a surprise set in a crowd leaving Bon Iver's performance. Eau Claire, WI

A veteran reads names in the sidewalk at the World War I Memorial in Kansas City, MO

Ian extends a helping hand at his 21st birthday. Part of a character profile on Ian and part of the larger body of work called Land of Contemplation, a photo book on the LaCygne contemplative community

The Thomas' plant a tree with their firstborn, Teagan. From Land of Contemplation, a photo book on the LaCygne contemplative community