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Ken Light

Adjunct Professor

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Phone: (510) 642-4825

Ken Light is curator of the Center for Photography and freelance documentary photographer. He is author of 5 monographs, including Texas Death Row, Delta Time and To the Promised Land. His latest book, "Witness In Our Time" will be published in Fall 2000. It is a text with 22 interviews of photographers working in this genre and looks at how photographers work, live and struggle to complete projects and get work into the world. His work has appeared in numerous magazines including, Rolling Stone, Granta, Time, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The National Journal, Speak, L'Internazionale and Camera Arts.

Ken Light's home page

Books by Ken Light

Witness In Our Time: Lives of Documentary Photographers

Texas Death Row: a selection of the photos from this book are available at the atomicpetals Web site

Interview with Ken Light

Souleyes Magazine: A conversation with Ken Light

Articles about Ken Light:

UC BerkeleyMedia Relations. A story about the three weeks Ken Light spent this summer working on his extended documentary project in West Virginia on the coal industry. Some of the photographs were on exhibit in the school's North Gate Gallery in April 2002.

Doctored John Kerry Photo Controversy

J-School Lecturer Ken Light writes in Newsday, the Washington Post and the Digital Journalist about the photo he took of John Kerry at a 1971 peace rally that was doctored by someone to include the image of Jane Fonda. Here's Light's original photo, the altered picture that's circulated on the Internet, and the photo of Fonda used to create the fake. The snopes.com Web site shows how the photo was stitched together, the San Francisco Chronicle, BBC News and Newsday have covered the story and the New York Times writes about the broader problem of digitally altered photos.

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