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Picturing Resistance
Picturing Resistance presents images from marches, protests, rallies, and demonstrations, showing people, in the public view, voicing their passion for change.
Our juror, Ken Light, photographer, author, and a Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism at the University of California, Berkeley, will select from submitted images.
Melanie Light and Ken Light’s book, Picturing Resistance, serves as the inspiration for this juried exhibition, and a must own book for anyone interested in social justice movements in the past seven decades.
In Ryan gallery Ken Light’s images from his book Midnight La Frontera will be shown during the Picturing Resistance exhibition.
Opening Reception
During the opening reception author and performer Ada McCartney will deliver a spoken word and musical performance in the spirit of raising our voices for change. Her voice and music will heighten the visual impact of photography in the galleries to the next level.
Video Walk Through the Gallery
Here’s a quick walk through the gallery with excerpts from Ada McCartney’s performance at the opening reception. You can see a closer look at the photographs in the gallery below.
About the Juror
Ken Light, a freelance documentary photographer for over fifty years, focuses on social issues facing America. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, his work has been published in twelve books, in magazines, exhibitions and numerous anthologies, exhibition catalogues and a variety of media, digital and motion picture.
His most recent book Course of the Empire, published by Steidl, portrays a decade of mounting tension in a polarized America, from Wall Street to the rural heartland and is a portrait of the American social landscape and is a riveting historical and visual record of a complicated country in a complicated time.
Midnight La Frontera (TBW Books) illustrates, in piercing words and in strobe lit images caught against the dark of night, the struggle and defiance of those who make the perilous hike for days and weeks in search of the American Dream.
Banner images by Harvey Castro, Elaine Kessler, and Bruce Charles

America Seen: Black Lives Matter Protest, Brooklyn, New York (Edition 1 of 6)
Pigment Inkjet Print - 2020

America Seen: Anti-Racism Rally, New York, New York (Edition 1 of 6)
Pigment Inkjet Print - 2021

America Seen: Women’s March, New York, New York (Edition 1 of 6)
Pigment Inkjet Print = 2017

America Seen: Women’s March, New York, New York (Edition 1 of 6)
Pigment Inkjet Print - 2017 -

“I AM HATED” documents his encounter with San Antonio Police
Pigment Inkjet Print - 2021

Prayers for 53 who died in heat of semi-trailer at site where they were found
Pigment Inkjet Print - 2022

Converse shoes were the only way to identify 10-year-old shot at Uvalde school
Pigment Inkjet Print - 2022

Rally against Trump administration’s separation of children and parents at border
Pigment Inkjet Print - 2018

Untitled (“Bans Off Our Bodies abortion rights rally, Phoenix, AZ)
Pigmented Inkjet Print - 2022

Moral Monday (Rev. Jesse Jackson & Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Phoenix, AZ)
Pigmented Inkjet Print - 2022

Anti-War Teach-In, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 1969
Pigment Inkjet Print - 1969

Teachers and Principal, Tucson Unified School District Teachers Strike
Pigment Inkjet Print - 1978

Honoring the People Killed for Protesting (Uproot Military Tyranny from Burma)
Pigment Inkjet Print - 2021

Nebraska Motto (ca. 1867): Equality Before the Law
Pigment Inkjet Print - 2018

Why march? Lesbian holding the Black son of a white mother and immigrant father.
Pigment Inkjet Print - 2018

Woman and Child near Maricopa County Sheriff’s Tent City; Phoenix, 16 Jan. 2007 (Edition 1 of 25)
Pigment Inkjet Print - 2007

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day March, no. 2: Phoenix, Arizona, January 16, 2017 (Edition 2 of 25)
Pigment Inkjet Print - 2017

Protest for George Floyd – Day 7, no. 1; Phoenix, Arizona, June 3, 2020 (Edition 1 of 25)
Pigment Inkjet Print - 2020