Morrie Camhi and Ken Light photographs

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13 11x14 photographs by Morrie Camhi from the series Jews of Greece and 45 11 x14 photographs by photojournalist Ken Light documenting immigrants and farm workers in Mexico and the US, 1977-88. Camhi's Jews of Greece series depicts Larisoa hat seller Zacharais Sasson, Nina Negrin at home in Ioannina, Aliki Beck at home in Athens, Larissa prayer reader Elias Albelansis, prayer reader of Larissa, Lola Matsas at her childhood home in Ioannina, Salonika shoe wholesaler Joseph Salem, Grocer Eftychia Svolis in Ioannina, Issac Ashkenazi at synogogue in Didimotiko, Serina Matsas at home in Ioannina, Lily and Carolina Cohen at home in Volos, Kavala tobacco specialist Aaron 'Saby" Tchmino, Matika Misrakis at her home in Volos, and Michael and Elias Kones in a general store in Volos. Ken Light's photographic subjects include scenes of Mexican immigrants and their journey to find work, crossing the US border illegally in and near Tijuana and San Ysidro, and workers (primarily in farm labor) in Arizona, Texas, California, Oregon, Florida, and Mississippi.

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Neil Folberg

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