Midnight la Frontera

Hardcover with tip-on front and verso136 pages, 66 plates 11.25 x 13.25 in. / 286 x 337 mmIntroductory text by José Ángel Navejas in English and Spanish2020ISBN 978-1-942953-43-2 Special edition available here   The stretch between Tijuana and San Diego is long. Very long. And it is as treacherous as it is beautiful. It is unlikely that anybody who has ever crossed it will easily forget it. Its desert like landscape is bound to carve itself equally onto body and soul. —José Ángel Navejas  Between 1983 and 1987 along the California / Mexico border, Ken Light took his Hasselblad camera and flash and rode along with US Border Patrol agents in the middle of the night as they combed the Otay Mesa looking for “illegal aliens.” He was there when they were apprehended – captured by authorities as well as the photographer’s flash. The black and white images are stark, impromptu mug shots in the desert, taken at a moment of extreme vulnerability, when hope gave way to despair, migrants caught in