Ryan Spencer Reed is an American social documentary

Social documentary photography

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 photographer

Photography

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. 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

War in Darfur

The Darfur Conflict was a guerrilla conflict or civil war centered on the Darfur region of Sudan. It began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army and Justice and Equality Movement groups in Darfur took up arms, accusing the Sudanese government of oppressing non-Arab Sudanese in...

, in late summer 2004, he and his work have moved about North America to universities in the form of traveling exhibitions and lectures. They have become the driving force, and ultimately the cultural backdrop, for broader symposiums designed to grapple with the issues facing the Sudanese people. The Open Society Institute

Open Society Institute

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 & Soros Foundation

Soros Foundation

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 awarded him with the Documentary Photography Project's Distribution Grant in 2006. While exhibiting and speaking internationally on the subject, his documentation of Sudan continues.

Group exhibitions

• New York Historical Society, New York, NY
• Field Museum of Natural History
  Field Museum of Natural History
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  , Chicago, IL
• Jewish Museum Berlin
  Jewish Museum Berlin
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  , GERMANY
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM provides for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history...
  
  , Washington DC
• National Constitution Center
  National Constitution Center
  The National Constitution Center is an organization that seeks to expand awareness and understanding of the United States Constitution and operates a museum to advance those purposes....
  
  , Philadelphia, PA
• Cairo Opera House
  Cairo Opera House
  The Cairo Opera House , part of Cairo's National Cultural Center, is the main performing arts venue in the Egyptian capital. Home to most of Egypt's finest musical groups, it is located on the southern portion of Gezira Island in the Nile River, in the Zamalek district west of and near downtown...
  
  , Egypt
• Jardin Du Trocadero
  Trocadero
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  , Paris, FRANCE
• National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina is located in central Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was established in 1888, having originally been conceived around 1850...
  
  , Sarajevo
• Holocaust Centre, Capetown, SOUTH AFRICA
• George Eastman House
  George Eastman House
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  , Rochester, NY
• Ortaköy Peir Square, Istanbul, TURKEY
• Gare do Oriente’s Main Square, Lisbon, PORTUGAL
• Guthrie Theater
  Guthrie Theater
  The Guthrie Theater is a center for theater performance, production, education, and professional training in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the result of the desire of Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Oliver Rea, and Peter Zeisler to create a resident acting company that would produce and perform the classics in...
  
  , Minneapolis, MN
• La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
• Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, CANADA
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
• Centro Internazionale de Fotografia (FORMA), Milan, ITALY

• Royal Ontario Museum
  Royal Ontario Museum
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  , Toronto, CANADA
• Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, SPAIN
• City Museum of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SLOVENIJA
• Hammer Museum
  Hammer Museum
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  , Los Angeles, CA
• Ban Jelačić Square
  Ban Jelacic Square
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  , Zagreb, CROATIA
• Sun Valley Center for the Arts
  Sun Valley Center for the Arts
  Sun Valley Center for the Arts is the oldest arts organization in central Idaho’s Wood River Valley. Founded in 1971, the center has grown from a few people presenting classes and events to an organization that has over 25,000 people attend events annually...
  
  , Sun Valley, ID
• Schouwburg Cultural Center, Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS
• Stockholm International Fairs, SWEDEN
  Sweden
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• Senate House, Wits University, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA
• University of South Africa
  University of South Africa
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  , Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA
• Brown University
  Brown University
  Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
  
   List Art Center, Providence, RI
• Detroit Public Library
  Detroit Public Library
  The Detroit Public Library is the second largest library system in Michigan by volumes held , and is the 20th largest library system in the United States. It is composed of a Main Library on Woodward Avenue, which houses DPL administration offices, and twenty-three branch locations across the city...
  
  , Detroit, MI
• Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
• Spertus Institute
  Spertus Institute
  Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies is a leading center for Jewish learning and culture in Chicago, Illinois. Not affiliated with any single branch of Judaism, Spertus offers opportunities for people of all backgrounds to learn about and explore the Jewish experience. Its main campus is located at...
  
  , Chicago, IL
• Galerie Mirchandani+Steinruecke, India
• Ana Tzarev Gallery, New York

Solo exhibitions

“Sudan: The Cost of Silence”:

• Harvard Law School
  Harvard Law School
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  , Massachusetts
• Michigan State University College of Law
  Michigan State University College of Law
  The Michigan State University College of Law is a private law school located in East Lansing, Michigan which is affiliated with Michigan State University...
  
  , Michigan
• Northwestern University
  Northwestern University
  Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
  
  , Illinois;
• Kean University
  Kean University
  Kean University is a coeducational, public research university located in Union and Hillside, New Jersey, United States. Kean University serves its students in the liberal arts, the sciences, and the professions with a dedication to intellectual and cultural growth and is best known for its...
  
  , New Jersey;
• Temple Shalom Chicago, Illinois
• University of Colorado at Boulder
  University of Colorado at Boulder
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  , Colorado
• Swarthmore College
  Swarthmore College
  Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia....
  
  , Pennsylvania
• Bucknell University
  Bucknell University
  Bucknell University is a private liberal arts university located alongside the West Branch Susquehanna River in the rolling countryside of Central Pennsylvania in the town of Lewisburg, 30 miles southeast of Williamsport and 60 miles north of Harrisburg. The university consists of the College of...
  
  , Pennsylvania

• Wilkes University
  Wilkes University
  Wilkes University is a private, non-denominational American university located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It has over 2,200 undergraduates and over 2,200 graduate students...
  
  , Pennsylvania
• Naples Holocaust Museum, Florida
• SRI in the Rockies Conference
  SRI in the Rockies Conference
  SRI in the Rockies is the annual national conference of the sustainable and responsible investing industry. The conference was founded in 1990 by George R. Gay , and has grown from 45 to 650 participants...
  
  , British Columbia, Canada
• Ohio Wesleyan University
  Ohio Wesleyan University
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  , Ohio
• Calvin College
  Calvin College
  Calvin College is a comprehensive liberal arts college located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 1876, Calvin College is an educational institution of the Christian Reformed Church and stands in the Reformed tradition of Protestantism...
  
  , Michigan
• Huntington University
  Huntington University (United States)
  Huntington University is an institution of higher education in Huntington, Indiana, United States, that is affiliated with the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.- History :...
  
  , Indiana
• Jackson Symphony Orchestra, Michigan
• Grace Presbyterian, Alberta, Canada

• Birmingham-Southern College
  Birmingham-Southern College
  Birmingham–Southern College is a 4-year, private liberal arts college located three miles northwest of downtown Birmingham. Founded in 1856, it is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Approximately 1400 students from 30 states and 23 foreign countries attend the college...
  
  , Alabama
• Ogden Arts, Utah
• Concordia University, Michigan
• Dordt College
  Dordt College
  Dordt College is a private, Christian, liberal arts college located in Sioux Center, Iowa. It was founded in 1955 and is affiliated with the Christian Reformed Church. The college name is a reference to the Synod of Dort....
  
  , Iowa
• Samford University
  Samford University
  Samford University, founded as Howard College is a private, coeducational, Alabama Baptist Convention-affiliated university located in Homewood, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, United States. It includes the , Cumberland School of Law, McWhorter School of Pharmacy, Brock School of Business, Ida V....
  
  , Tennessee
• Hope College
  Hope College
  Hope College is a medium-sized , private, residential liberal arts college located in downtown Holland, Michigan, a few miles from Lake Michigan. It was opened in 1851 as the Pioneer School by Dutch immigrants four years after the community was first settled...
  
  , Michigan
• Ann Arbor District Library
  Ann Arbor District Library
  The Ann Arbor District Library is a public library system that serves the residents of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Downtown Library, located at 343 South Fifth Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, was dedicated in 1957 and had building additions in 1974 and 1991. AADL also includes four branch...
  
  , Michigan

Visiting artist lectures

• Field Museum of Natural History
  Field Museum of Natural History
  The Field Museum of Natural History is located in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It sits on Lake Shore Drive next to Lake Michigan, part of a scenic complex known as the Museum Campus Chicago...
  
  , Chicago, Illinois
• Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
  , Boston, Massachusetts
• Glenbow Museum
  Glenbow Museum
  The Glenbow Museum in Calgary is one of Western Canada's largest museums, with over 93,000 square feet of exhibition space in more than 20 galleries, showcasing a selection of the Glenbow's collection of over a million objects....
  
  , Alberta Canada
• Yale University
  Yale University
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  , New Haven, Connecticut
• University of Calgary
  University of Calgary
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  , Alberta, Canada
• Detroit Public Library
  Detroit Public Library
  The Detroit Public Library is the second largest library system in Michigan by volumes held , and is the 20th largest library system in the United States. It is composed of a Main Library on Woodward Avenue, which houses DPL administration offices, and twenty-three branch locations across the city...
  
  , Detroit, Michigan
• Kean University
  Kean University
  Kean University is a coeducational, public research university located in Union and Hillside, New Jersey, United States. Kean University serves its students in the liberal arts, the sciences, and the professions with a dedication to intellectual and cultural growth and is best known for its...
  
  , New Jersey
• University of Vermont
  University of Vermont
  The University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or...
  
  , Burlington, Vermont
• Weber State University
  Weber State University
  Weber State University is a public university located in the city of Ogden in Weber County, Utah, USA. It was founded in 1889 and is a coeducational, publicly supported university offering professional, liberal arts and technical certificates, as well as associate, bachelor's and master's degrees...
  
   Convocation, Ogden, Utah
• King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
• Furman University
  Furman University
  Furman University is a selective, private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. Furman is one of the oldest, and more selective private institutions in South Carolina...
  
  , South Carolina
• Grand Valley State University
  Grand Valley State University
  Grand Valley State University is a public liberal arts university located in Allendale, Michigan, United States. The university was established in 1960, and its main campus is situated on approximately west of Grand Rapids...
  
  , Grand Rapids, Michigan
• University of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois

In addition to nearly all of the aforementioned solo exhibition venues

Selected publications

• Darfur/Darfur: Life/War. New York: DK Melcher Media, 2008. ISBN 159591045X. Reed is one of the eight photographers of this book.
• Google Earth Mapping Initiatives: Crisis in Darfur Layers. Reed is one of the seven photographers.

External links

• WVIA - Ronald Bernier, Director of the Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University, and Dr.Beth Admiraal of the Political Science Department at King's College, on the exhibition "Sudan: The Cost of Silence--photographs of Ryan Spencer Reed"
• 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