On Friday, September 18, at 6:30 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St., award-winning journalist and documentary photographer David Bacon will discuss the issues of labor, immigration, and international politics.

A reporter and documentary photographer for almost 20 years, Bacon was also a labor organizer for unions in which immigrant workers made up a large percentage of the membership.

Bacon’s book, The Children of NAFTA, was published in 2004. He recently completed a photo documentary project sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, Communities Without Borders, published in 2006. In his latest project, a traveling exhibit titled Living Under The Trees, Bacon photographed and interviewed indigenous Mexican migrants working in California’s farm fields.