Artist Talk with Ken Light

Monday, December 7, 2020
6:00 - 7:30 PM PST

On Monday, December 7th, SF Camerawork was pleased to welcome Ken Light. Ken, the Reva & David Logan Professor of Photojournalism at the University of California Berkeley, shared works from his formative years as a photographer and focus on images from his latest book Midnight La Frontera.

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 in the middle of the night as they combed the Otay Mesa looking for “illegal aliens.” He was there when they were apprehended – captured by authorities as well as the photographer’s flash.

Ken Light’s books What's Going On? 1969-1973, and Midnight LaFrontera are both featured in our Book & Zine Fair.

ABOUT KEN LIGHT

Ken Light is a photographer whose work has appeared in books, magazines, exhibitions and numerous anthologies, exhibition catalogues and a variety of media, digital and motion picture. He got his start in 1969 photographing for alternative newspapers and magazines which were widely published in posters, books and hundreds of periodicals, and since then has exhibited internationally in over 225 one-person and group shows.

He received two National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowships, an N.E.A survey and publication grant, the Dorothea Lange Fellowship and a fellowship from the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation.

He is the Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism and curator of the Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley. His editorial work is represented by Contact Press Images.

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