Tue, 27 October 2020
Glenn Ruga is a graphic designer, photographer, and a life-long human rights activist. He is the founder of the Social Documentary Network who through its website, magazine, and contest showcase the documentary work of photographers from all over the world. Ruga has created traveling and online documentary exhibits on the struggle for a multicultural future in Bosnia, the war and aftermath in Kosovo, and on an immigrant community in Holyoke, Mass. In February 2010, Ruga curated SDN's first exhibition at powerHouse Arena in New York on the global recession. The photographers were winners of an SDN call for entries. The second SDN live exhibition "Ten Years after 9/11" was shown at powerHouse Arena in September 2011. Ruga has continued to curate exhibitions for SDN in New York and other locations. From 2010-2013, Ruga was the Executive Director of the Photographic Resource Center (PRC) at Boston University. He curated numerous exhibitions while at the PRC including "Global Health in Focus" featuring work by Kristen Ashburn, Dominic Chavez, and David Rochkind. Ruga is also the former Publisher and Art Director of Loupe, the magazine of the PRC.
Websites Social Documentary Network https://socialdocumentary.net/index.php Zeke Magazine Social Documentary Network YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3JQSF0Clbd_UJgFtOusCGA Bayet Ross Smith http://www.bayeterosssmith.com Michelle Bogre
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Tue, 20 October 2020
Amy Toensing is a documentary photographer committed to telling stories with sensitivity and depth and known for her intimate stories about the lives of ordinary people. Toensing has been a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine for over two decades. She has photographed cultures around the world including the last cave-dwelling tribe of Papua New Guinea, remote Aboriginal Australia, the Maori of New Zealand, and the Kingdom of Tonga. She has also covered issues such as food insecurity in the United States, the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, and Muslim women living in Western culture. She recently completed her sixteenth feature story for National Geographic magazine on how conservation projects impact the surrounding culture and community. In addition to her photojournalism and documentary work, Toensing teaches photography to kids and young adults in underserved communities, including Burmese refugees in Baltimore, a young photojournalist in Islamabad, Pakistan, and Syrian refugee children in Jordan. Currently, Toensing is an Assistant Professor of Visual Storytelling at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and a National Geographic Explorer (2021-2022).
Websites Amy Toensing Jason Eskenazi
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Tue, 13 October 2020
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers, and animals in a series called Small Deaths published in 2001 by University of Texas Press. Her other monographs include Painted Light, the University of Texas in 2010, a career retrospective that encompasses a quarter-century of prolific image-making. Her collection of photograms, entitled 'Las Sombras / The shadows' was published by the University of Texas Press in October 2012. This series is a continuation of her lifetime investigation of the natural world which in her own words is ‘brimming with fantastic mysterious beautiful things. She has resided in Tucson, Arizona for 20 years. She regularly teaches workshops nationally and internationally.
Websites Kate Breakey Holly Roberts https://www.hollyrobertsstudio.com
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Tue, 6 October 2020
Michael M. Santiago (b. 1980) is a staff news photojournalist with Getty Images. His work has focused on issues ranging from health, race and identity, family relationships, youth empowerment, and more. Michael is a member of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the shooting deaths of 11 people and the wounding of seven others on Oct. 27 at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The judges called the staff's work “immersive, compassionate coverage ... that captured the anguish and resilience of a community thrust into grief.” He was the recipient of the 2015 Alexia Foundation student grant for his project "Stolen Land, Stolen Future" a body of work focusing on Black farmers of California. His project “250” a work revolving the life of a man’s struggle with obesity won the 2014 Forward Thinking Museum 1st quarter photography competition and his projects "A Promise" and "Michael the Veteran" was selected as juried winners for Morpholio Projects Future Voices. He was also invited to attend the 2015 and 2017 New York Times portfolio review and was a student at the Eddie Adams Workshop XXVII. His portfolio received an Award of excellence at the 70th College Photographer of the Year awards. He received a Grand Prize award in the Documentary/Photojournalism category at PDNedu 13th Annual Student Photography Competition and a winner in the 2016 PDN Photo Annual in the student category. the film has gone on to win an Edward R. Murrow award, final in the yearly Investigative Reporters and Editors awards, earned a second-place title in Best of The West, was honored for a Webby, a Pro-Am Student Award at the 2018 Online Journalism Awards, and a 2018 Student Production Award at the Rocky Mountain Emmy.
Websites Michael M. Santiago https://www.msantiagophotos.com/ Brandon Bell https://www.instagram.com/branbell2019/?hl=en
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