ZEKE Fall 2019

Contributors
Photographers
Carol Allen-Storey, based in the UK, is
an award-winning documentary photographer
chronicling humanitarian and social
issues. In 2009, Storey was appointed as a
UNICEF ambassador for photography. She
sits on the boards of the AOP (Association
of Photographers), and the BPPA (British
Professional Press Association). She is a
founding member of the World Photography
Academy for the SONY Award. Some of her
clients include: UNICEF, Save The Children,
The Elton John AIDS Foundation, WWF,
International Alert, Comic Relief, Royal British
Legion, The Global Fund for Children.
Toby Binder was born in Germany and studied
at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and
Design. He focuses his photography on social,
environmental and political topics. Now based
in Argentina and Germany, he works on projects
on post-war and crisis situations as well as
the daily life of people. He has been awarded
internationally the Nannen-Preis in 2017, the
Sony World Photo Awards in 2017 and 2019,
and the Philip-Jones-Griffiths-Award in 2018.
The same year he received an Honorable
Mention at the UNICEF Photo of the Year.
Rory Doyle is based in Cleveland,
Mississippi. Born and raised in Maine, he
moved to the South in 2009 and has remained
committed to the region ever since. His work
often highlights unique Southern subcultures
commonly overlooked. Doyle is a 2018
Mississippi Visual Artist Fellow through the
Mississippi Arts Commission and National
Endowment for the Arts for “Delta Hill Riders.”
He won the 16th Annual Smithsonian Photo
Contest for the project in 2019 and the
Southern Prize from South Arts organization. He
was also recognized for the project by winning
the 2019 Zeiss Photography Award, and the
photojournalism category at the 2018 Eye Em
Awards in Berlin, Germany.
Sean Gallagher is a British photographer
and filmmaker now based in Asia. His work
focuses on highlighting environmental issues
in the Asia-Pacific region. With a degree in
zoology, his background in science has led
to communicating ecological issues through
visual storytelling. He is a 7-time recipient of
the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting travel
grant and his images are represented by the
National Geographic Image Collection. He is a
Fellow of the UK Royal Geographical Society,
the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Science Journalism Program and the Resilience
Journalism Fellowship at the Craig Newmark
Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
Lauren Owens Lambert is a photojournalist
based in the Boston area focusing on
documenting the human aspect of conservation,
climate change, and ocean science. She
is an International League of Conservation
Photographer - Emerging League and a contributing
photographer with Everyday Extinction
and a Blue Earth Alliance project photographer.
She has curated and shown in exhibitions at
Photoville and has presented work at the UN on
the importance of visual storytelling under the
Sustainable Development Goal 14 – Life Below
Water.
Michael O. Snyder is a photographer and
filmmaker whose work sits at the intersection
of environmental sustainability and social
justice. He has spent the past 15 years working
on projects in the Amazon, the Arctic, the
Himalaya, Asia, East Africa, and his home in
rural Appalachia. His work features intimate
portraiture of cultures affected by environmental
issues, with a focus on empowerment and
community-driven solutions.
Writers
Barbara Ayotte has served as a senior
strategic communications strategist, writer
and activist for leading global health, human
rights and public media nonprofit organizations,
including the Nobel Peace Prize- winning
Physicians for Human Rights and International
Campaign to Ban Landmines. Barbara is SDN’s
Communications Director and is Editor of ZEKE
magazine.
Alessandra Bergamin is an Australian
freelance journalist whose work focuses on
immigration, public health, and environmental
justice. She has been published in National
Geographic, The New Yorker, Harper’s, and
Literary Hub, among others. She also produces
short documentaries and often photographs her
stories. She is a 2019 UC Berkeley Food and
Farming Fellow.
Caterina Clerici is an Italian freelance
journalist and producer based in New York. She
was awarded three Innovation in Development
Reporting Grants from the European Journalism
Centre for her multimedia work in Haiti, Ghana
and Rwanda, published in TIME, The Guardian,
Al Jazeera English and Marie Claire, among
others. She worked as a freelance photo editor
and producer for VR at TIME, and as an executive
video producer at Blink.la.
Tammy Danan is a freelance storyteller
based in the Philippines. While a generalist,
she aims to better focus on social issues and
humanitarian crises, with a stress on the plight
of the Filipino indigenous people. In constant
collaboration with photographers, her words
have appeared in Al Jazeera, VICE, Audubon.
org, OZY and others.
Lori Grinker is a photographer, filmmaker,
artist, and educator. Author of Afterwar;
Veterans from a World in Conflict; co-author,
The Invisible Thread; Mike Tyson; and Six
Days From Forty (in progress). Her work is
represented by the Nailya Alexander Gallery
in NYC, and is in many private and public
collections including the ICP; Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston; and the Museum of Modern
Art. Awards include a New York Foundation
for the Arts Grant; W. Eugene Smith Memorial
Fellowship; Ernst Hass Grant; Open Society
Community Engagement Grant; and the World
Press Foundation. She is an Ochberg Fellow of
the Dart Center on Journalism and Trauma, and
a senior member of Contact Press Images.
Zeb Larson is a writer and researcher based
in Columbus, OH. He recently finished a PhD
in History at Ohio State University. His research
deals with the global anti-apartheid movement,
and he has begun working on adapting his dissertation
into a book.
Glenn Ruga is the Executive Editor of ZEKE
magazine and founder and director of the
Social Documentary Network (SDN). From
2010-2013, he was the Executive Director of
the Photographic Resource Center. From 1995-
2007 he was the Director, and then President,
of the Center for Balkan Development. Ruga is
also the owner and creative director of Visual
Communications, a graphic design firm located
in Concord, MA.
J. Sybylla Smith is an independent curator
with more than 25 solo or group exhibitions
featuring over 80 international photographers
exhibited in the US, Mexico, and South
America. An adjunct professor, guest lecturer,
and thesis advisor, Sybylla has worked with the
School of Visual Arts, the School of the Museum
of Fine Arts, Wellesley College, and Harvard
University.
Frank Ward is a professor of visual art at
Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA. In
2016, Ward received a National Endowment
for the Humanities grant and a Mass Humanities
grant for his photography of Holyoke, MA. In
2012, he went to Central Asia as the Cultural
Envoy in Photography for the US Department
of State. In 2011, he was awarded an Artist
Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural
Council for his photography in the former Soviet
Union. He has also received support for his
work in the former Yugoslavia, Tibet and India.
He is represented by Photo Eye Gallery in Santa
Fe, NM.
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