PEMBROKE — Bruce Roberts, former senior photographer and director of photography of Southern Living, will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the main reading room at the Mary Livermore Library of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Roberts will present his latest book, “Just Yesterday: North Carolina People and Places,” in this Friends of the Library event.

“Just Yesterday” consists of 191 black-and-white and color photographs depicting scenes of North Carolina life and history.

The book gives vision to Roberts’ lifelong love for uncelebrated people and his admiration for their efforts to make life better for others.

Divided into the four geographic regions of the state, the images and text illustrate the people and places of the Outer Banks, the East, the Piedmont and the Mountains.

In natural light photography, Roberts features images of life in North Carolina: lighthouses and coastal scenes, farm workers toiling on family farms in the eastern Sandhills, the Civil Rights Movement, explosive urban growth in the Piedmont and both the natural beauty of western mountains and its people.

Roberts worked as a journalist for several North Carolina newspapers before joining the Charlotte Observer as a staff photographer in 1959. From 1963 to 1978 he worked as a freelance photographer and his work has appeared in books and national magazines.

In 1978, Roberts joined the staff of Southern Living as the first director of photography and served as its senior travel photographer from 1982 to 1992. He has also authored and photographed other lighthouses on the Atlantic coast.