Nationality American Education Calvin College Role Photographer | Name Ryan Reed Occupation Photographer Employer Freelancer | |
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Born 1979 Ludington, MI USA Alma mater Calvin College B.A. 2002 Website www.ryanspencerreed.com Profiles | ||
90 seconds ryan spencer reed brian kelly at artprize
Ryan Spencer Reed (born 1979) is an American social documentary photographer. He has worked in Central and East Africa in the capacity of a photojournalist, covering the Sudanese Diaspora, since 2002. After returning from covering the War in Darfur in summer 2004, he and his work have moved around North America to universities in the form of traveling exhibitions and lectures. The Open Society Institute & Soros Foundation awarded him with the Documentary Photography Project's Distribution Grant in 2006.
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- 90 seconds ryan spencer reed brian kelly at artprize
- Ryan spencer reed and the cost of silence by james soles
- Visiting artist lectures
- Awards
- Selected publications
- References
While exhibiting and speaking internationally on the subject of Sudan, Reed has photographed extensively on the hubris of power amidst the twilight of the American industrial revolution, which is touring in exhibition form. Since Spring of 2012, Reed took on a long-term project on the modern incarnation of the Band of Brothers: 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne through training and a deployment to Afghanistan. This work was unveiled in its entirety at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in the Fall of 2014. The work aims to catalyze a dialogue on the dissonance between the myths and realities of war.
Ryan spencer reed and the cost of silence by james soles
Visiting artist lectures
In addition to nearly all of the aforementioned solo exhibition venues