This wonderfully presented black-and-white book of photography captures the career of West Louisville photojournalist Bud Dorsey. Hear from Dorsey himself about his life and career. The photos included depict everything from civil rights demonstrations and firefighting to birthday parties and choir singing. These full-page images are a powerful look into the past across all areas of life and culture.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “The Louisville Story Program collaborated closely with Mr. Dorsey to develop this book, his first professionally published photography book. He had been storing prints, negatives, and slides in shoe boxes, plastic shopping bags, and other makeshift storage containers in his home. Over the course of fifteen months, the Louisville Story Program scanned over 1,000 of those images for Mr. Dorsey, worked with Mr. Dorsey to record context for those images when possible, and collaborated with him to develop hundreds of pages of first-person narrative about his life and work. Together we edited all of this down into the book Available Light. The photographs in Available Light show us life in Louisville as many of us have never seen it before. Bud teaches us how to look at our community: with love, curiosity, respect, nuance, concern, playfulness, hope, heartbreak, and pride. Available Light is a love letter to Louisville, crafted outside of mainstream arts and media worlds over the course of decades by a man who cared and was always there to bear witness.”