M Contemporary will exhibit as part of Detroit Art Mile 2021.

Detroit native Kenny Karpov at 17 moved to New York where he became a photojournalist with the New York Times and the BBC. His story telling abilities drew the attention of international help organizations and as a result he has just published a book of his 4 1/2 year mission to document the rescue of Libyan and Syrian refugees in small boats in the Mediterranean sea.Detroit native Kenny Karpov at 17 moved to New York where he became a photojournalist with the New York Times and the BBC. His story telling abilities drew the attention of international help organizations and as a result he has just published a book of his 4 1/2 year mission to document the rescue of Libyan and Syrian refugees in small boats in the Mediterranean sea.

Detroit photojournalist Kenny Karpov has been back in the city since January, after spending the past several years documenting war-torn and ravaged parts of the world that most of us only see on the news.

Karpov has lived those experiences, in the Middle East and the Central Mediterranean Sea, and now he’s working to share all that he experienced — and photographed — in a forthcoming exhibition and book titled, “Despite It All We Never Learn.”