Join photographers Ken Light and Erik Castro as well as sociologist Dr. Daniel Malpica for a conversation about their work highlighting immigrant workers in California.
Saturday, October 18 at 3 PM
$25 for SVMA Members/$30 non-Members
Registration is required for this event.
Erik Castro is an award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker recognized with multiple National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) awards for his multimedia work, wildfire coverage, and his year-long project on homelessness, BROKEN. He frequently produces short films that humanize complex social issues for nonprofits, focusing on topics such as homelessness, housing affordability, and the challenges faced by immigrant farmworkers.
Ken Light is a documentary photographer and professor at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he holds the Reva and David Logan Chair in Photojournalism. For over four decades, his work has chronicled social and political issues in America, from migrant labor and rural poverty to the justice system and contemporary politics. His photographs have been widely exhibited and collected by major institutions. He is the author of numerous books, including Valley of Shadows and Dreams, Texas Death Row, and Course of the Empire.
Dr. Daniel Malpica is a Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Sonoma State University. He conducts research in four primary areas: international migration, race and ethnicity, labor markets, and indigenous peoples. Much of his research focuses on Latin-American-origin population in the United States. Dr. Malpica also heads the McNair Scholars Program at Sonoma State University.