The Mississippi Delta | Ken Light | Granta Magazine

The Mississippi Delta

Ken Light

Art & Photography
Granta 40
1st June 1992

In the last three years I have driven along some of the smaller, less-travelled roads of the Mississippi Delta.

Ken Light

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.

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