Ken Light
Photo Director/ Adjunct Asst. PrPhone: 510-642-4825
Email: Ken Light
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
Published Stories
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Ken Light Talks About Sebastiao Salgado's Work KQED-TV
Ken Light does a walk through of the images of Sebastiao Salgado on view at the Brower Center in Berkeley, California.
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Coal Hollow Digital Journalist: A Multimedia Magazine for Photojournalism
From: Digital Journalist: A Multimedia Magazine for Photojournalism: "Adjunct Professor Ken Light's black-and-white photography and Melanie Light's oral histories give us a documentary that goes far beyond the news to show the enduring damage coal mining has done to the people and environment of Appalachia. "
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Tell It On the Mountain Salon.com
For Salon.com, Sarah Karnasiewicz reviews a powerful new book of photos and oral histories by adjunct professor Ken Light documenting the ravaged lives of West Virginia's coal miners.
Books
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Witness in our Time
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On the lives of documentary photographers
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Texas Death Row
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A collection of images
Articles about Ken Light
- Souleye's Interview with Ken Light
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A story by UC Berkeley Media Relations 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.
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Ken Light, the director of UCB's Center for Photography, talks in detail about three of Sebastião Salgados photographs from the "Then and Now" exhibition at the David Brower Center, which runs May 14, 2009 through January 31, 2010. Produced by SPARK for This Week in Northern California.
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Courses taught by Ken Light
- Spring 2010: MINI: The Journalist as Freelancer (7 Weeks)
- Spring 2010: Photo Essay
- Spring 2010: Visual Storytelling: Advanced Documentary Projects-Real Eyes Magazine
- Spring 2010: Master's Project Seminar
- Fall 2009: News Photography
- Fall 2009: Visual Storytelling: Advanced Documentary Projects-Blurb Book Photo Project
- Fall 2009: Master's Project Seminar
- Spring 2009: Photo Essay
- Spring 2009: MINI: The Journalist as Freelancer (7 Weeks)
- Spring 2009: Master's Project Seminar
- Spring 2009: Visual Storytelling: Advanced Documentary Projects-Real Eyes Magazine
- Fall 2008: Master's Project Seminar
- Fall 2008: Visual Storytelling: Advanced Documentary Projects-Blurb Book Photo Project
- Fall 2008: News Photography
- Spring 2008: Master's Project Seminar
- Spring 2008: Photo Essay
- Spring 2008: Visual Storytelling: Advanced Documentary & Real Eyes Magazine
- Fall 2007: Visual Storytelling/ Advanced Documentary Photography
- Fall 2007: News Photography
- Fall 2007: Master's Project Seminar
- Spring 2007: News Photography
- Spring 2007: Visual Storytelling: Advanced Documentary & Real Eyes Magazine
- Spring 2007: Law and Ethics
- Spring 2007: Master's Project Seminar
- Fall 2006: News Photography
- Fall 2006: Master's Project Seminar
- Fall 2006: Visual Storytelling/ Advanced Documentary Photography
- Spring 2006: News Photography
- Spring 2006: Visual Storytelling/ Advanced Documentary Photography
- Spring 2006: Master's Project Seminar
- Fall 2005: News Photography
- Fall 2005: Visual Storytelling: Communities in Transition
- Fall 2005: Master's Project Seminar
- Spring 2005: News Photography
- Spring 2005: Visual Story Telling
- Spring 2005: Master's Project Seminar
- Spring 2002: News Photography
- Spring 2002: Documentary Photography
- Fall 2001: Master's Project Tutorial
- Fall 2001: News Photography
- Spring 2001: Master's Project Tutorial
- Spring 2001: News Photography
- Spring 2001: Advanced Documentary Photography
- Fall 2000: Master's Project Tutorial
- Fall 2000: News Photography
- Fall 2000: Advanced Photography
- Spring 2000: Master's Project Tutorial
- Spring 2000: News Photography
- Spring 2000: Documentary Photography
- Fall 1999: News Photography
- Fall 1999: Advanced Photography
- Spring 1999: Advanced News Photography
- Fall 2004: News Photography
- Fall 2004: Master's Project Seminar
- Fall 2004: Doc Photo: Still Images of A World In Motion
- Spring 2004: News Photography
- Spring 2004: Visual StoryTelling
- Spring 2004: Master's Project Seminar
- Fall 2003: News Photography
- Fall 2003: Documentary Photography
- Fall 2003: Master's Project Seminar
- Spring 2003: Master's Project Seminar
- Spring 2003: News Photography
- Spring 2003: Visual StoryTelling
- Fall 2002: Master's Project Tutorial
- Fall 2002: News Photography