In the last three years I have driven along some of the smaller, less-travelled roads of the Mississippi Delta.
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In the last three years I have driven along some of the smaller, less-travelled roads of the Mississippi Delta.
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Ken Light teaches photography at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and has published two books of social commentary, With These Hands and To the Promised Land. He is represented by Contact Press Images.
More about the author →Ken Light revisits the photos he took of immigrants crossing the border between Mexico and the US in the 1980s.
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