Tag: Ken Light
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Ken Light’s Photographs of Migrants on the US-Mexico Border
Juxtapoz Magazine – Ken Light’s Photographs of Migrants on the US-Mexico Border Between 1983 and 1987 along the California/Mexico border, Ken Light took his Hasselblad camera and flash and rode along with US Border Patrol agents i… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/ken-light-s-photographs-of-migrants-on-the-us-mexico-border/ In piercing words and in strobe-lit images caught against the dark of night, Midnight La Frontera’s…
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Has America Been Pushed Beyond Repair? | Blind
Has America been pushed Beyond Repair? Photographer Ken Light spent ten years crisscrossing America for his latest book, Course of the Empire. He came of age in the 1960s and believed in America. But after a decade photographing the country, the state of America and the stories of those he met Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/3934-has-america-been-pushed-beyond-repair-en Photographer Ken…
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Blind – Haunting Photos of Midnight Crossings at the US/Mexico Border During the 1980s
Haunting Photos of Midnight Crossings at the US/Mexico Border During the 1980s — Blind Magazine American photographer Ken Light looks back at his time at the US/Mexico border in the 1980s when The Border Patrol began hunting migrants in the dead of night. via Blind Magazine: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/stories/1237/Haunting-Photos-Of-Midnight-Crossings-At-The-Us-Mexico-Border-During-The-1980s “At the time, a lot of newspapers in…
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Midnight La Frontera – Photographs by Ken Light | Book review by Gregory Eddi Jones | LensCulture
Midnight La Frontera – Photographs by Ken Light | Book review by Gregory Eddi Jones | LensCulture Photographed over thirty years ago, Ken Light’s nighttime pictures of migrants captured along the US-Mexico border pose some uneasy questions via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/ken-light-midnight-la-frontera Photographed over thirty years ago, Ken Light’s nighttime pictures of migrants captured along the US-Mexico…
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Documenting life on the US/Mexico border, from 1983-1987
Documenting life on the US/Mexico border, from 1983-1987 With his photographs, taken during the 1980s, Ken Light wanted to reveal ‘the desperation, hardship, and struggle of people who want a better life’. via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/documenting-life-on-the-us-mexico-border/ With his gripping photographs, taken during the 1980s, Ken Light wanted to reveal ‘the desperation, hardship, and struggle of…
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PDNPulse: Photographer Busts Al Gore's TV Company for Photo Rip-Off
Link: San Francisco photographer Ken Light won a small claims judgment of $588
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PDNPulse: Al Gore TV Challenges An Inconvenient Photographer
Link: Ken Light, the San Francisco photographer who won a judgment in February against Al Gore’s cable TV network for unauthorized use of an image, now has to fight to defend his rights again.
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Envisioning Human Rights Part III Stephen Ferry, Ken Light, Stephen Goldblatt, Sebastião Salgado – The Eye of Photography
Link: We’ve become such a 24/7 moving world with a constant stream of news and sound and pictures,” writes Light. “And the wonderful thing of a still photograph is you get to linger, you get to stop, you get to look, you get to think, you get to react, and it is a very different…
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Ken Light’s What’s Going On? Is a look back at American during the turbulent 1960s and ’70s (PHOTOS).
Powerful Photos From America’s 1960s and ’70s Fourth of July celebrations can honor our nation’s founding while also reflecting on darker periods of history. In 2015, David Rosenberg wrote about… via Slate Magazine: https://slate.com/culture/2016/07/ken-lights-whats-going-on-is-a-look-back-at-american-during-the-turbulent-1960s-and-70s-photos.html Ken Light knew he would become a photojournalist on April 28, 1970. While studying at Ohio University, Light traveled to Ohio…
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I Was Just Following My Nose and Watching What Was Going On — Vantage — Medium
I Was Just Following My Nose and Watching What Was Going On Ken Light’s photographs of the United States 1969–74 via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/i-was-really-just-following-my-nose-and-watching-what-was-going-on-46c673d0a457#.kft880jle the spring of 1970, when Ken Light went off to photograph the rioting at Ohio State University that followed the US invasion of Cambodia, all he had with him was a Pentax…
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Ken Light – What’s Going On: America Then | LensCulture
What’s Going On: America Then – Photographs and text by Ken Light | LensCulture America in the late 60s and early 70s was an America full of fear and full of hope—a country at its worst and at its best and for all the difficulties, it was an America we should not forget via LensCulture:…
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PPOTR Dispatch #13: Interview with Ken Light
PPOTR Dispatch #13: Interview with Ken Light Execution Chamber, Walls Unit, Huntsville (1994), from Texas Death Row @Ken Light In early October, Ken Light and I sat down to discuss his project and book Texas Death Row (University Press of Mis… via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/ppotr-dispatch-13-interview-with-ken-light/ In early October, Ken Light and I sat down to…
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A Photographer’s Trail to Appalachia – Lens
A Photographer’s Trail to Appalachia Forty years ago, Ken Light was introduced to the power of photojournalism. His journey has taken him to Appalachia and other places. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/showcase-154/ Ken Light arrived in an Appalachia whose impoverished areas had shrunk but where poverty was still deeply rooted. The people he met wanted to…
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Photographer Ken Light Loses Unfair Business Claim Against Gore's Current Media
Link: Photographer Ken Light Loses Unfair Business Claim Against Gore’s Current Media
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Worth a Look: The Valley of Shadows | dvafoto
Worth a Look: The Valley of Shadows | dvafoto: Newsweek’s just published a brilliant and far-reaching investigation into California’s growing economic and water crises. The Valley of Shadows, a five-part series comprising wonderful photos by Ken Light, original reporting, interactive maps, and audio, is a great example of what most journalism might look like in…
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Review: 'Witness in Our Time' by Ken Light
Jim McNay says: After several months—or years—on the shelves of serious photographers, it’s time to take this volume down again and give it a look. For all of us who have complained about how tough things are now in these times—and who among us has not complained?—the voices in this book remind us photojournalism and…
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Coal Hollow, photos by Ken Light
From The Digital Journalist (link to gallery at bottom of page): Ken Light, who teaches photography at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, has five previous documentary books to his credit and also produced Witness In Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers (Smithsonian Press, October 2000). He prefers photographing…