Podcast appearances and mentions of Ken Light

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Latest podcast episodes about Ken Light

The Photo Banter
Ken Light

The Photo Banter

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2024 68:39


On today's podcast I welcome photographer and photojournalist Ken Light. Ken has been a working photographer for over 50 years covering politics and social issues in America as well as being a professor of Photojournalism at the University of California Berkely. In this interview I speak to Ken about his recent coverage of both the DNC and RNC political conventions and how he approaches covering politics. I also speak to Ken about his book titled “Midnight La Frontera” a documentation of boarder crossings from Tiajuana to San Diego. Ken is an accomplished photographer having published 12 books with his most recent book “Report to Shareholders” which was supported with a Guggenheim fellowship. I'm excited to have Ken on the podcast to discuss his incredible career and his passion and relentless dedication to telling important and insightful stories. www.kenlight.com @kenlight_photo_

10 Frames Per Second
Episode 116: Ken Light (Documentary Photography)

10 Frames Per Second

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2024 60:00


Ken Light‘s 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/underground newspapers and magazines. His work was widely published in posters, books and hundreds of periodicals. His 12th and most recent book is Report … Continue reading "Episode 116: Ken Light (Documentary Photography)" The post Episode 116: Ken Light (Documentary Photography) first appeared on A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone.

Tha Smoking Section
#155: Ken "LIGHT$A'BER" Vaega

Tha Smoking Section

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2024 67:00


Since 2011, LIGHT$A'BER has been deeply involved in the world of dance, competing in Hip Hop competitions at both national and international levels. He is a skilled freestyler and choreographer, with victories in All-style Battle Competitions and Urban Crew Competitions. He has taught workshops on urban choreography, freestyle, and krump in multiple countries and won the European Buck Session (EBS) Krump World Championships in 2018. LIGHT$A'BER continues to push the boundaries of his art, constantly seeking new ways to develop and expand his skills in the world of dance. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thasmokingsection/support

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Kapow, For The World!
Vulnerability, Authenticity And The Internal Search For Freedom | Ken “LIGHT$A'BER” Vaega

Kapow, For The World!

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2023 92:17


DANCE PODCAST - KAPOW, FOR THE WORLD!KEN "LIGHT$A'BER" VAEGAIG: @lightsaber_lhIn this conversation, we dived into the following:- Discovering your authentic self in dance.- The internal search for freedom.- Surrounding yourself with the right people.- Connecting with others without an agenda.- Using vulnerability to reach a flow state.Follow us on Instagram: @kapow.ftwCover art: @teung.dwgIntro track: melanic. - we're just some motherf***king kids

Vision Slightly Blurred
An Insta-Famous Photographer Collected, But Didn't Deliver

Vision Slightly Blurred

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2021 24:32


Ryan Shorosky, photographer and long-haul trucker, built a significant Instagram following while driving a semi around the country. We he made some of his scenic images featuring his signature technicolor skies available for sale, many of his fans jumped at the opportunity. But as the months went by, and the excuses piled on, people started to get suspicious. VICE tracked down some of the victims and Shorosky himself. Is it a case of fraud, or unexpected success coupled with an itinerant life that made fulfillment difficult?Also on the show: Ken Light published a new book documenting an "empire in decline," Twitter bans a PhD researcher for posting an image of Bree Newsome taking down a confederate flag, a stunning photo of Simone Biles and other Olympic photos, and who says NYC is a cold, heartless place???

Scipodity
Episode 24 - Dr. Ken Light

Scipodity

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2020 52:28


Dr. Ken Light from Barnard University comes on the show with Alex, Jay, Molly, and Warren to talk about cephalopods, professional poker, and smarties ice cream.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/scipodity/support

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New Books in History
Ken Light, “Whats Going On? 1969 -1974” (Lighted Square Media, 2015)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2016 46:00


What’s Going On? 1969 -1974 (Lighted Square Media, 2015) is Ken Light‘s ninth book. Ken started his professional life as a photojournalist at his college newspaper in 1969 and has developed a career as a documentary photographer who tells stories about social and political life in the United States. Ken is the Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley and director for its Center for Photography. He was also the co-founder of Fotovision and the International Fund for Documentary photography. What’s Going On? 1969 -1974 is project born out of Ken’s observations that many of the significant politically based movements of our time have their roots, and are mirrored, in the social and cultural landscape of the early 1970s – from the Occupy movement of 2011 to the riots in Ferguson, Missouri and the many forms that Black Lives Matter has taken since the hashtag was first used in 2013. The book combines Ken’s photographs with personal memoir and a timeline of events from 1969 – 1974. The timeline describes day by day, year by year the significant incidents that occurred in the United States and shaped Ken’s perception and experience of the time period. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in American Studies
Ken Light, “Whats Going On? 1969 -1974” (Lighted Square Media, 2015)

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2016 46:00


What’s Going On? 1969 -1974 (Lighted Square Media, 2015) is Ken Light‘s ninth book. Ken started his professional life as a photojournalist at his college newspaper in 1969 and has developed a career as a documentary photographer who tells stories about social and political life in the United States. Ken is the Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley and director for its Center for Photography. He was also the co-founder of Fotovision and the International Fund for Documentary photography. What’s Going On? 1969 -1974 is project born out of Ken’s observations that many of the significant politically based movements of our time have their roots, and are mirrored, in the social and cultural landscape of the early 1970s – from the Occupy movement of 2011 to the riots in Ferguson, Missouri and the many forms that Black Lives Matter has taken since the hashtag was first used in 2013. The book combines Ken’s photographs with personal memoir and a timeline of events from 1969 – 1974. The timeline describes day by day, year by year the significant incidents that occurred in the United States and shaped Ken’s perception and experience of the time period. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Photography
Ken Light, “Whats Going On? 1969 -1974” (Lighted Square Media, 2015)

New Books in Photography

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2016 46:00


What’s Going On? 1969 -1974 (Lighted Square Media, 2015) is Ken Light‘s ninth book. Ken started his professional life as a photojournalist at his college newspaper in 1969 and has developed a career as a documentary photographer who tells stories about social and political life in the United States. Ken is the Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley and director for its Center for Photography. He was also the co-founder of Fotovision and the International Fund for Documentary photography. What’s Going On? 1969 -1974 is project born out of Ken’s observations that many of the significant politically based movements of our time have their roots, and are mirrored, in the social and cultural landscape of the early 1970s – from the Occupy movement of 2011 to the riots in Ferguson, Missouri and the many forms that Black Lives Matter has taken since the hashtag was first used in 2013. The book combines Ken’s photographs with personal memoir and a timeline of events from 1969 – 1974. The timeline describes day by day, year by year the significant incidents that occurred in the United States and shaped Ken’s perception and experience of the time period. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Art
Ken Light, “Whats Going On? 1969 -1974” (Lighted Square Media, 2015)

New Books in Art

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2016 46:00


What’s Going On? 1969 -1974 (Lighted Square Media, 2015) is Ken Light‘s ninth book. Ken started his professional life as a photojournalist at his college newspaper in 1969 and has developed a career as a documentary photographer who tells stories about social and political life in the United States. Ken is the Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley and director for its Center for Photography. He was also the co-founder of Fotovision and the International Fund for Documentary photography. What’s Going On? 1969 -1974 is project born out of Ken’s observations that many of the significant politically based movements of our time have their roots, and are mirrored, in the social and cultural landscape of the early 1970s – from the Occupy movement of 2011 to the riots in Ferguson, Missouri and the many forms that Black Lives Matter has taken since the hashtag was first used in 2013. The book combines Ken’s photographs with personal memoir and a timeline of events from 1969 – 1974. The timeline describes day by day, year by year the significant incidents that occurred in the United States and shaped Ken’s perception and experience of the time period. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books Network
Ken Light, “Whats Going On? 1969 -1974” (Lighted Square Media, 2015)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2016 46:00


What’s Going On? 1969 -1974 (Lighted Square Media, 2015) is Ken Light‘s ninth book. Ken started his professional life as a photojournalist at his college newspaper in 1969 and has developed a career as a documentary photographer who tells stories about social and political life in the United States. Ken is the Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley and director for its Center for Photography. He was also the co-founder of Fotovision and the International Fund for Documentary photography. What’s Going On? 1969 -1974 is project born out of Ken’s observations that many of the significant politically based movements of our time have their roots, and are mirrored, in the social and cultural landscape of the early 1970s – from the Occupy movement of 2011 to the riots in Ferguson, Missouri and the many forms that Black Lives Matter has taken since the hashtag was first used in 2013. The book combines Ken’s photographs with personal memoir and a timeline of events from 1969 – 1974. The timeline describes day by day, year by year the significant incidents that occurred in the United States and shaped Ken’s perception and experience of the time period. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Music and Concerts
History & Reconstruction of Native American Flutes in the Dayton C. Miller Collection

Music and Concerts

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2013


Native American instrument-maker and performer Barry D. Higgins (White Crow) explores the history and reconstruction of the diverse types of Native American flutes held in the Library's Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection. The Miller Flute Collection contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century. Speaker Biography: Barry D. Higgins, based in Greenfield, Massachusetts, is a nationally-renowned Native American instrument-maker and performer. He came to flute-making following experiences with flutes made by Coyote Oldman, Hawk Littlejohn, Ken Light and Scott Loomis. His craftsmanship is informed by his mixed Anglo/Native (Pennacook-Abenaki) heritage. Higgins is retired from a long career in the healthcare industry. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5989

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography
The Candid Frame #185 - Ken Light

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2013 53:29


Ken Light is a social documentary photographer, and educator, whose work has appeared in books, magazines, catalogues, on-line media and exhibitions. He is the author of eight books including his most recent book, Valley of Shadows and Dreams (published by Heyday, 2012). Additional books include Coal Hollow, published in 2006 by The University of California Press, his text Witness In Our Time; Working Lives of Documentary Photographers was published by the Smithsonian Institution Press in October 2000 and in a revised second edition in 2010. His photo book Texas Death Row University Press of Mississippi was published in the fall of 1997. Texas Death Row is a look at life inside the death house as the condemned wait to be executed in Americas largest and most active Death Row. He is a professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley and 2012 Laventhol Visiting Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has taught workshops at the ICP in New York City, The Missouri Workshop, Anderson Ranch, the S.F. Art Institute and the School for Photographic Studies in Prague. He was editor of the university of California Press series on contemporary photography and a founder of the International Fund for Documentary Photography which awarded grants to photographers internationally and Fotovision.org anon-profit documentary organization based In San Francisco, California. He is associated with the editorial photo agency Contact Press Images in New York City. www.kenlight.com www.kenschles.com www.thecandidframe.com info@thecandiframe.com

KQED: Spark Art Video Podcast
Spark: Sebastiao Salgado: Web Extra

KQED: Spark Art Video Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2009


This Web extra features Ken Light, the director of UCB's Center for Photography, talking in detail about three of Sebastiao Salgados photographs from the "Then and Now" exhibition at the David Brower Center, which runs May 14, 2009 through January 31, 2010. Original release: October 2009.