Here's a recording of a speech Michael Hintlian gave at the Old South Meeting House on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - WGBH Forum Network - The Workers of Boston's Big Dig:
"Starting in 1997, Michael Hintlian began photographing the 5,000 men and women who worked on the Big Dig. Despite being thrown off of one site after another, his perseverance paid off in a book of stunning, gritty black-and-white photographs entitled Digging: The Workers of Boston's Big Dig. "