Ryan Spencer Reed Explained

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.^[1] 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.^{[2] [3]}

While exhibiting and speaking internationally on the subject of Sudan, Reed has photographed extensively on the hubris of power amidst the twilight of the U.S. 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.^[4] 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.^[5]

Group exhibitions

• New York Historical Society, New York City^{[6] [7] [8]}
• Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL^[9]
• Jewish Museum Berlin, GERMANY^[10]
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.^{[11] [12]}
• National Constitution Center, Philadelphia^{[13] [14]}
• Cairo Opera House, Egypt^[15]
• Jardin Du Trocadero, Paris^[16]
• National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo^[17]
• Holocaust Centre, Cape Town^[18]
• George Eastman House, Rochester, New York^[19]
• Ortaköy Peir Square, Istanbul^[20]
• Gare do Oriente’s Main Square, Lisbon^[21]
• Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis^[22]
• La Casa Encendida, Madrid^{[23] [24]}
• Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, CANADA
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston^{[25] [26] [27]}
• Centro Internazionale de Fotografia (FORMA), Milan, Italy^[28]
• International Center of Photography, New York City^[29]
• Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada^{[30] [31]}
• Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan^{[32] [33]}
• Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain^[34]
• City Museum of Ljubljana, Ljubljana^[35]
• Hammer Museum, Los Angeles^[36]
• Ban Jelačić Square, Zagreb, Croatia^[37]
• Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID^[38]
• Schouwburg Cultural Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Stockholm International Fairs, Sweden
• University of the Witwatersrand, Senate House, Johannesburg, South Africa
• University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
• Brown University List Art Center, Providence, Rhode Island^[39]
• Detroit Public Library, Detroit^[40]
• Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona
• Spertus Institute, Chicago^[41]
• Galerie Mirchandani+Steinruecke, India^[42]
• Ana Tzarev Gallery, New York City^[43]
• The LUMIX Festival for Young Photojournalism, Hanover, Germany^[44]

Solo exhibitions

• Harvard Law School, Massachusetts^[45]
• Michigan State University College of Law, Michigan^[46]
• Northwestern University, Illinois;^{[47] [48]}
• Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania^[49]
• Kean University, New Jersey;^{[50] [51] [52]}
• Temple Sholom, Chicago^[53]
• University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado^[54]
• Bucknell University, Pennsylvania
• City Waukegan/Urban Edge Gallery, Illinois^{[55] [56]}
• Wilkes University, Pennsylvania^{[57] [58] [59]}
• Richard App Gallery, Michigan^[60]
• Naples Holocaust Museum, Florida
• SRI in the Rockies Conference, British Columbia, Canada
• Ohio Wesleyan University, Ohio^[61]
• Calvin College, Michigan^[62]
• Huntington University, Indiana^{[63] [64]}
• Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Michigan^{[65] [66]}
• Grace Presbyterian, Alberta, Canada^[67]
• Birmingham-Southern College, Alabama^[68]
• Ogden Arts, Utah^{[69] [70]}
• Concordia University, Michigan ^[71]
• Dordt College, Iowa^[72]
• Samford University, Tennessee^[73]
• Hope College, Michigan^{[74] [75]}
• Ann Arbor District Library, Michigan^[76]
• Muskegon Community College, Michigan^{[77] [78]}

Visiting artist lectures

• Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago^{[79] [80] [81]}
• Harvard University, Boston^{[82] [83]}
• Glenbow Museum, Alberta, Canada^{[84] [85]}
• Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
• University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Detroit Public Library, Detroit
• Kean University, New Jersey^[86]
• University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont^{[87] [88]}
• Weber State University Convocation, Ogden, Utah^[89]
• King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania^[90]
• Furman University, South Carolina
• Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan
• University of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois^[91]

Awards

• Pictures of the Year International (POYi) 2015 World Understanding Award Judges' Special Recognition "Despite Similarities to Reality"^[92]
• Photolucida 2015 Critical Mass Top 50 "Despite Similarities to Reality"^[93]
• Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2015 Finalist and Public Award Winner^[94]
• Freedom to Create Prize, "Sudan: The Cost of Silence^[95]
• Open Society Foundations & Soros Foundation Documentary Photography Project Distribution Grant, "Sudan: The Cost of Silence"^[96]

Selected publications

• is Not a Requiem for Detroit Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2011, pp. 124–147.^[97]
• Detroit Forsaken, Ryan Spencer Reed Photo Technique Magazine, March/April 2011.^[98]
• "Darfur/Darfur: Life/War." New York: DK Melcher Media, 2008. . Reed is one of the eight photographers of this book.^{[99] [100] [101]}
• Google Earth Mapping Initiatives: Crisis in Darfur Layers. Reed is one of the seven photographers.^{[102] [103]}

External links

• Government Operations Committee Testimony on Sudan Divestment- HOUSE BILL No. 4854 July 24, 2007
• Website of Ryan Spencer Reed and The Cost of Silence Exhibitions

Notes and References

1. http://www.darfurdarfur.org/main/archives/2007/07/09/ryan-spencer-reed/#more-48 Photographer Biography, Darfur/Darfur
2. http://www.soros.org/initiatives/photography/focus_areas/distribution/grantees/reed_2006 The Open Society Institute & Soros Foundations Network, Documentary Photography Project 2006 Distribution Grant Recipient
3. http://www.soros.org/initiatives/photography/news/distribution_20070315 OSI Distribution Grant Winners Announced
4. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rsr/afghanistan-stands-alone-0 Kickstarter Campaign
5. http://www.artprize.org/ryan-spencer-reed Pictures of the Year International (POYi) World Understanding Award Judges' Special Recognition "Despite Similarities to Reality"
6. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/images-of-darfur-on-central-park-west/ Images of Darfur, on Central Park West. by Sewell Chan
7. https://www.nyhistory.org/web/default.php?section=whats_new&page=detail_pr&id=8870890 New York Historical Society: What's New
8. https://www.nyhistory.org/web/default.php?section=exhibits_collections&page=exhibit_detail&id=7018998 New York Historical Society: Exhibitions and Collections
9. http://culturalstudies07.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/fyi-darfur-image-and-reality-symposium/ Introduction to Cultural Studies. Columbia College.
10. http://www.jmberlin.de/darfur/en/projektion.html Before the Eyes of the World Jewish Museum Berlin
11. http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/analysis/details/2006-11-20/photos/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Our Walls Bear Witness, Darfur: Who Will Survive Today
12. http://www.forward.com/articles/9004/ Nathan Guttman
13. http://constitutioncenter.org/Files/darfur.pdf National Constitution Center Press Release
14. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/26/arts/NA-A-E-ART-US-Darfur-Exhibit.php Constitution Center facades display anguish of Darfur. International Herald Tribune.
15. http://www.freedomtocreate.com/prize-2010-exhibition-cairo Freedom to Create Prize Exhibition
16. https://www.flickr.com/photos/samoulmou/2263882242/ Summary and images of the installation
17. Web site: Freedom to Create - News Article . www.freedomtocreate.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110911215320/http://www.freedomtocreate.com/news/view/113 . 2011-09-11.
18. http://www.ctholocaust.co.za/view.asp?pg=events Past Event - Witnessing Darfur
19. http://www.eastmanhouse.org/exhibits/container_65/index.php George Eastman House Past Exhibitions
20. http://www.worthycausesinc.org/pdf/Women%20Suffer%20Most%20in%20Darfur%20Conflict.pdf Turkish Daily News
21. http://tv1.rtp.pt/noticias/?article=142966&visual=3&layout=10 RPT
22. http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/minn/minn179.html Guthrie reading of In Darfur promises a powerful play
23. http://www.lacasaencendida.es/LCE/lceCruce/0,0,73537_0_73535_11967$P1%3D16,00.html La Casa Encendida de Obra Social Caja Madrid
24. http://www.darfurdarfur.org/main/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/notaprensadarfurdarfu-r_madrid-ingles.pdf UNHCR Press Release
25. http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/sudan/darfur-darfur.html Darfur Comes to ICA/Boston
26. http://www.darfurdarfur.org/main/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/ica-darfur-darfur-update.pdf ICA Press Release
27. http://www.icaboston.org/noshow/darfur-darfur/ The ICA Presents
28. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.formafoto.it/_com/asp/page.asp%3Fg%3Dm%26s%3Dp%26l%3Dita%26id_pag%3D%257B55DD8D7E-C940-4BE2-A0BB-3E726274ECA5%257D&ei=Suy3SYfiGpHMMpCV8doG&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=7&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DHolocaust%2BCentre,%2BCapetown%2B%252B%2B%2522ryan%2Bspencer%2Breed%2522%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us%26sa%3DG FORMA Exhibition Archives
29. http://www.darfurdarfur.org/main/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/awp_press_release_ny_0909.pdf Darfur/Darfur Press Release
30. http://www.tiff07.ca/filmsandschedules/filmdetails.aspx?id=706041358441386 Toronto International Film Festival Films & Schedules
31. http://www.rom.on.ca/news/releases/public.php?mediakey=filoxkbf1z Royal Ontario Museum Press Release
32. http://www.mlive.com/artprize/index.ssf/2014/09/artprize_2014_venue_review_gram.html ArtPrize 2014 venue review: Grand Rapids Art Museum enters '|Dis|Comfort Zones'
33. http://www.artprize.org/ryan-spencer-reed/2014/despite-similarities-to-reality-this-is-a-work-of-fiction Grand Rapids Art Museum ArtPrize 2014 Exhibition '|Dis|Comfort Zones'
34. http://www.darfurdarfur.org/main/archives/2008/04/30/valencia-spain-june-17-2008/ Darfur/Darfur archives
35. http://www.darfurdarfur.org/main/archives/2008/02/11/ljubljana-slovenia-february-20-2008/ Darfur/Darfur archives
36. https://www.eddieadamsworkshop.com/usr/usr-show?U_ID=U00000UIYDkdtK_g Eddie Adams Workshop Alumni
37. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sl&u=http://www.diva.si/galerija_notranja.php%3Fid_album%3D719&ei=Ng63ScOhJYzIM5HTtd4K&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=6&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DZagreb%2B%252B%2522ryan%2Bspencer%2Breed%2522%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den-us Opening of exhibition
38. http://www.sunvalleycenter.org/arts/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56&Itemid=78 Sun Valley Center - Exhibitions
39. http://brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-081.html Brown University Media Relations
40. http://www.wdetfm.org/event/darfurdarfur-a-photo-essay WDET Event: Art & Museum Exhibits
41. http://www.darfurdarfur.org/main/archives/2008/11/10/chicago-il-november-12-2008/#more-307 Darfur/Darfur Press Release
42. http://www.freedomtocreate.com/prize-2011-exhibition-mumbai Freedom to Create Prize Exhibition
43. http://www.freedomtocreate.com/prize-2009-exhibition-newyork Freedom to Create Prize Exhibition
44. http://www.fotofestival-hannover.de/ausstellungen.html?&L=1 Lumix Festival Exhibitions
45. http://thehiphopentertainmentlawproject.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/9/ THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW: Effecting Change at Home and Across the Globe“
46. http://africa.msu.edu/tuesdaybulletin.php?date=2006-10-17 African Studies Center Events
47. http://facingsudan.blogspot.com/2006/11/ryan-spencer-reed.html FACING SUDAN a documentary film
48. http://hellonearth.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/come-kick-off-the-great-lakes-conference-on-darfur-with-stand/ Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth
49. http://www.swarthmore.edu/x8168.xml The Swarthmore News Swat Sudan Hosts Darfur Conference.
50. http://www.kean.edu/pressreleases/2008/03/03_07_08_Jewish_Studies.html Jewish Studies Program Celebrates 10th Anniversary Kean University Media and Publications.
51. http://www.kean.edu/~jstudies/10years.html 10 Years - 50 Visiting Scholars Jewish Studies and World Affairs at Kean University
52. http://media.www.cougarsbyte.com/media/storage/paper738/news/2008/03/10/CampusNews/Photojournalist.Ryan.Spencer.Reed.To.Speak.And.To.Exhibit.Documentary.Photograph-3259354.shtml Kean University Newspaper Article
53. http://www.yelp.com/events/chicago-social-action-event-to-raise-awareness-of-genocide-in-africa Temple Sholom Event. "Social Action Event to Raise Awareness of Genocide in Africa"
54. http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2007/26.html CU-Boulder's Norlin Library To Host Photo Exhibit On Sudan Crisis
55. http://wgntv.com/2015/09/11/suburban-photo-exhibit-honors-those-who-serve/ WGNTV Chicago's Very Own. "Suburban photo exhibit honors ‘Those Who Serve’"
56. http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/news/ct-lns-combat-photog-st-0909-20150908-story.html Chicago Tribune. "From Afghanistan to Waukegan: 'Powerful' combat photos lead art series" By Dan Moran
57. http://www.ecweekend.com/features/story.asp?id=45352 Electric City.The Cost of Silence brings Sudanese life to Northeast Pa. by Alicia Grega-Pikul. Electric City.
58. http://www.wilkes.edu/include/supportwilkes/ReportOFgiftsWilkesWinter06(lo-res).pdf Wilkes University Alumni Magazine. "Sordoni Art Gallery to Feature Work of International Photojournalist"
59. http://www.wilkes.edu/include/academics/Arts%20and%20Humanities/Arts%20at%20Wilkes%20Newsletter/ArtsatWilkes_022012.PDF Arts@Wilkes. "Upcoming Exhibit Features Spencer Reed's Detroit Forsaken"
60. http://www.stellaflysocialmedia.com/ryan-spencer-reed-opening-reception-of-shades-of-grandeur/ Stellafly Art Review. "Ryan Spencer Reed Opening Reception of Shades of Grandeur"
61. http://transcript.owu.edu/pdfs/archives/20070419.pdf The Transcript
62. http://clubs.calvin.edu/chimes/article.php?id=417 Calvin Chimes. "Center Art Gallery features Ryan Reed"
63. https://www.huntington.edu/news/photojournalist-to-present-exhibit-lecture Merillat Centre for the Arts. "Photojournalist to Present Exhibit, Lecture"
64. https://www.huntington.edu/news/forester-lecture-series-announces-season-speakers Forester Lecture Series. Season's Speakers Announced
65. http://platform.blogs.com/passionofthepresent/2005/09/photos_show_sud.html Jackson Citizen Patriot. "Photos Show Sudan Strife"
66. http://spaces.outsidecircle.com/apps/discuss.asp?guid=9C8F5DD4CDBF42B5BBD28305F05C3197 Outside Circle Collective. "Ryan Spencer Reed- Hands Of A Displaced Sudan"
67. http://www.ststephenscalgary.org/Keepinthefaith_sept2808.pdf The Calgary Herald. Valerie Fortney.
68. http://blog.al.com/scenesource/2009/01/bethanne_hill_tells_tales_with.html James R. Nelson - Visual arts critic for the Birmingham News.
69. http://www.ogdencity.com/printarticle113.html Ogden Arts Presents The Exhibition Sudan: The Cost Of Silence and Ogden's Art Stroll For Darfur
70. http://www.artistsofutah.org/15bytes/07oct/page9.html Exhibition Listings in Northern Utah
71. http://www.cuaa.edu/cuarts/2456.html Concordia Exhibitions - Fall 2008
72. http://www.dordt.edu/cgi-bin/news/get_news.pl?id=1773 Dordt College News. "Justice Matters Events"
73. http://www.samford.edu/pubs/belltower/092906/reed.html The Belltower - Samford University Communications. "Photojournalist Reed to Speak on Darfur Crisis"
74. http://www.hope.edu/academic/art/past/Ryan%20Spencer%20Reed/rsr.html Hope College Critical Issues Symposium - Genocide Agenda
75. http://www.hope.edu/pr/pressreleases/content/view/full/6563 Hope College News. "Symposium Will Examine Genocide"
76. https://www.aadl.org/node/4236 Ann Arbor District Library News. "Disturbing Images of Darfur"
77. http://www.muskegoncc.edu/news-and-events/global-awareness-festival-focuses-on-africa/ Muskegon Community College News. "Global Awareness Festival Focuses on Africa"
78. http://www.muskegoncc.edu/news-and-events/final-week-for-sudan-photo-exhibit/ Muskegon Community College News. "Final Week for Sudan Photo Exhibit"
79. http://www.colum.edu/Academics/Inst._for_the_Study_of_Women_and_Gender_in_the_Arts_and_Media/2007_Programs.php DARFUR: IMAGERY AND REALITY SYMPOSIUM. James Simpson Theater, Field Museum.
80. http://www.darfurdarfur.org/main/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/darfur-symposium-2007.pdf DARFUR: Imagery and Reality
81. http://chitownthirtysomething.blogspot.com/2007/10/great-darfur-exhibit-field-museum.html Field Museum Audience Testimonial.
82. http://www.sudaneseonline.com/cgi-bin/sdb/2bb.cgi?seq=msg&board=171&msg=1188274819 Sudanese Online.
83. http://platform.blogs.com/passionofthepresent/2005/11/darfur_december.html Darfur December Conference
84. https://www.ucalgary.ca/agf/darfuropening Alberta Global Forum - University of Calgary
85. https://www.ucalgary.ca/agf/node/111 Image of the talk
86. http://www.state.nj.us/education/holocaust/news_topics_issues/worldaffiars0109.pdf Kean University Program in Jewish Studies and World Affairs
87. http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/theview/article.php?id=2016 Full Slate Planned for Earth Week. UVM The View.
88. http://www.uvm.edu/~stand/edu_speakers.htm Genocide Education Speakers Series.
89. http://www.ogdencity.com/displayarticle113.html Ogden Arts Presents
90. http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wvia/.jukebox?action=viewMedia&mediaId=564258 WVIA - Public Broadcasting
91. http://www.uis.edu/newsbureau/events/2008/10/uis-program-will-examine-crisis-in.html UIS program will examine the crisis in Sudan UIS News Bureau
92. http://www.poyi.org/72/R43/second_01.php Pictures of the Year International (POYi) World Understanding Award Judges' Special Recognition "Despite Similarities to Reality"
93. http://www.photolucida.org/artist-detail/?cmid=8450 Photolucida 2015 Critical Mass Top 50 "Despite Similarities to Reality"
94. http://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/en/submissions/leica-oskar-barnack-award/10697-ryan-spencer-reed-1 "DESPITE SIMILARITIES TO REALITY Ryan Spencer Reed, United States of America"
95. http://islamicartsmagazine.com/magazine/view/freedom_to_create_exhibition/ Freedom to Create Exhibition
96. http://www.vqronline.org/people/ryan-spencer-reed Virginia Quarterly Review 'People'
97. http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2011/spring/meitner-detroit/ This is Not a Requiem for Detroit
98. http://phototechmag.com/detroit-foresaken/ Detroit Forsaken, Ryan Spencer Reed
99. http://darfurdarfur.melcher.com/index.html Publisher's book web site
100. http://www.darfurdarfur.org/main/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/dd_book_pressrelease.pdf Book Press Release
101. http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/07/darfur200707 Vanity Fair. Picturing Genocide. by Evgenia Peretz.
102. http://www.ushmm.org/maps/projects/darfur/ Mapping Initiatives: Crisis in Darfur Layers
103. http://earth.google.com/outreach/cs_darfur.html United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Crisis in Darfur