All images and text © Kevin Moloney

Photographed on assignment for The New York Times


Peruvian sheep herders move their flock along a road through Bureau of Land Management land near Rock Springs, Wyo. Sheep herders working in southern Wyoming along the Colorado border complain of low pay, poor accommodations and lack of health care after they arrive on H2A visas to work for local ranchers.



Chilean sheep herder Lorenzo Cortez Vargas shows his worn shoes.



Sheep graze on Bureau of Land Management land in Wyoming's Red Desert, under the watchful eyes of mostly Latino sheep herders.



A Peruvian sheep herder talks about his life in small quarters, on lonely pasture and with low pay, thousands of miles from family.



Night falls on a pair of the tiny horse-drawn camp trailers.


All images and text © Kevin Moloney

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