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Letters from Editors Spring 2018/The Women’s Issue J. Sybylla Smith & Glenn Ruga From the Guest Editor: My first thought when asked to be Guest Editor of the Women’s Issue was to create a diverse and inclusive voice by harnessing a collective of women photojournalists from as wide a geographic expanse as possible. Working with… Continue reading Spring 2018

Interview with Aida Muluneh by Caterina Clerici Born in Ethiopia, Aida studied film at Howard University in the US and then went on to work as a photojournalist at the Washington Post. Her work has been exhibited throughout the world and is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, Hood… Continue reading Interview with Aida Muluneh

ZEKE Book Reviews BOOKS REVIEWED IN THIS ISSUE: Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay by Debi Cornwall MFON: Women Photographers of the Africa Diaspora co-edited by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and Adama Delphine Fawundu Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Burma and Thailand by Mariette Pathy Allen On the Frontline by Susan Meiselas Traces by Weronica Gęsicka … Continue reading Book Reviews: Spring 2018

Through a Woman’s Lens By J. Sybylla Smith The historiography of women’s photojournalistic work, while still sparse, has gained ground in the past thirty years, due to the stellar and consistent work of female photographers, academics, museum curators, and editors. The fields of photojournalism and documentary photography reflect the political, social and cultural configurations of… Continue reading Through a Woman’s Lens

Between Life & Death: Photo Gallery Photographs by B.D. Colen, Nikki Denholm, Paolo Patruno, from the spring 2017 issue of ZEKE magazine Every two minutes, a woman dies from complications of pregnancy and childbirth — 99% of them in the world’s poorest countries. Three photographers give those women a voice and capture the importance of… Continue reading Between Life & Death: Maternal Health in Haiti and Sub-Saharan Africa

Women Work: The Economic Power of Women Photo Gallery Photographs by Casey Atkins, Delphine Blast, Joan Lobis Brown, Vidhyaa Chandramohan, Susan Kessler, Valerie Leonard, Maranie Staab, and Beata Wolniewicz According to UN Women, nowhere in the world has women’s participation in the labor force reached parity with men. While women are increasingly well-educated, labor markets… Continue reading Women Work

Taking Pictures, Taking Action SDN asks scholars, activists, and photographers how images can change the world by Anna Akage-Kyslytska A conversation with: Michelle Bogre: Associate Professor of Photography, copyright lawyer, documentary photographer and author of Photography As Activism: Images for Social Change Greg Constantine: Documentary photographer working on a long-term project, “Nowhere People,” documenting the… Continue reading Taking Pictures, Taking Action

ZEKE Book Reviews JEROME AVE By The Bronx Photo LeagueWith Introduction by Michael KamberBDC Editions, 2016136 pp./$40.00www.jeromeaveworkers.com Last fall, the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC) released Jerome Ave, the first photo book published under its new label, BDC Editions. The book explores New York City’s working-class community of Jerome Avenue, a South Bronx corridor under consideration… Continue reading ZEKE Book Reviews

Interview with Furkan Temir by Caterina Clerici, from the spring 2017 issue of ZEKE magazine Furkan Temir is a self-taught Turkish photographer, born in a small town in eastern Turkey in 1995. He is currently living in Istanbul and is a member of the VII Mentorship Program. Interested in photojournalism as well as art, he… Continue reading Interview with Furkan Temir