Ken Light (photographer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ken Light (photographer)

American social documentary photographer

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1951

Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York, United States

Profession: photographer, photojournalist

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Kenneth Randall Light (born 1951) is an American social documentary photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He is the author of nine monographs, including Texas Death Row and his most recently published What's going on? 1969-1974.
He wrote of Witness in our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers, a collection of recollections and interviews with 29 of the world's most well-known photographers, editors and curators of the genre.
He has had his photographs included as part of photo essays and portfolios in newspapers, magazines and other media, has been exhibited worldwide and is part of museum collections such as SF Museum of Modern Art and International Center of Photography.
Light was also a co-founder of Fotovision, the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography and he is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts photography fellowships.
He is also a professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C.
Berkeley where he holds the Reva and David Logan chair in photojournalism and he is the director of the school's Logan documentary photography gallery.Kenneth Baker the San Francisco Chronicle's art critic described his black-and-white imagery as placing his work in the lineage of Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Robert Frank.