Episode 08: Photojournalist David Bacon

One of my most significant mentors and photographic collaborators, my dear friend and comrade David Bacon, joins me in conversations this week. David came up as a union organizer with the United Farm Workers and United Electrical Workers, then spent decades as a photographer, photojournalist, labor reporter, and radio host covering labor, migration, and global economy. In this week’s episode, we talk David’s journey from organizer to photojournalist, his early influences, the role of movement photographers, the importance of media workers taking collective action to support their labor rights, journalists speaking out to support a ceasefire in Gaza, and advice for new photographers developing their photographic practice. Find David on IG at @DavidBacon and at http://dbacon.igc.org.