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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.
His most recent books are Course of the Empire (2021 Steidl) which begins in 2011 when he traveled across the United States photographing the country, an empire that he realized was the most fragile of organisms.The resulting portrait of the American social landscape is a riveting historical and visual record of a complicated country in a complicated time. Midnight La Frontera (2020 TBW) presents Light’s work from 1983-1987 and offers testimony of the night border crossing for those looking for a chance at the American Dream with the first hand and compelling memoir of José Ángel Navejas, in English and Spanish.