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Social Documentary Network (SDN) is a community for photographers, NGOs, editors, journalists, lovers of photography and anyone else who believes that photography plays an important role in educating people about our world. In April 2015, SDN launched its first issue of ZEKE: The magazine for global awareness
www.zekemagazine.com

Founded in October 2008, Social Documentary Network (SDN) today has

hundreds of compelling online exhibits by photographers from all corners of the globe documenting issues as diverse as the effects of modernization on Kathmandu, homelessness in the U.S., the consequences of oil exploitation in the Niger Delta, and reconciliation in Rwanda. All photographers on SDN share a common curiosity about the human condition and a strong desire to communicate their insights through words and photographs.

New on SDN The Body Wasn’t the Problem By Sara Swaty The Body Wasn’t the Problem is a documentary portrait series exami...
05/28/2026

New on SDN

The Body Wasn’t the Problem
By Sara Swaty

The Body Wasn’t the Problem is a documentary portrait series examining health equity for disabled Americans. Rooted in the photographer’s own experience with lifelong disability, Sara Swaty photographs the lived realities of navigating care, mobility, and survival within systems that routinely fail them. The project reframes disability not as bodily failure, but as a consequence of infrastructure, policy, and medical systems.

View the full gallery on the SDN website. Link in bio.

New on SDN Ctrl+ZBy Sharon Eilon .eilon.photography Ctrl+Z is a long-term documentary project exploring the inner worlds...
05/26/2026

New on SDN

Ctrl+Z
By Sharon Eilon .eilon.photography

Ctrl+Z is a long-term documentary project exploring the inner worlds of Gen Z as they come of age amid political instability, rapid technological shifts, and profound social change. Many of its subjects are growing up in environments shaped by ongoing conflict and uncertainty, where the reality of violence permeates daily life. In Israel, this trajectory is further intensified by the expectation of mandatory military service at eighteen.

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New on SDNThe Other Side By Afzal KhanThe Other Side documents life in Diyara, an island community across the Ganga from...
05/21/2026

New on SDN

The Other Side
By Afzal Khan

The Other Side documents life in Diyara, an island community across the Ganga from Patna in India, where nearly half a million people remain isolated from the nearby city’s rapid modernization. For over two years, the project has followed how residents navigate displacement, floods, and daily crossings for survival, revealing two vastly different realities separated by only a five-minute boat ride.

View the full gallery on the SDN website.

The Spring 2026 issue of ZEKE Magazine is now available.ZEKE is one of the few print magazines dedicated exclusively to ...
05/18/2026

The Spring 2026 issue of ZEKE Magazine is now available.

ZEKE is one of the few print magazines dedicated exclusively to documentary photography that engages with the world as it is—honestly, urgently, and beautifully. Each issue is crafted for readers who believe that carefully printed images still hold the power to inform, reveal, and inspire. Not only is each issue filled with outstanding visual stories about relevant issues, you can also hold it in your hands, put it on your coffee table, or keep it on your bookshelf.

Inside the current issue:

ZEKE Award Winners:

Out For Blood by Ginevra Bonina

Bullets Have No Borders by Ebrahim Alipoor

ZEKE Award Honorable Mentions:

Black Diamond and Tears by Supratim Bhattacharjee

Somewhere Else by Rory Grubb

ICE—Broken Families by Carol Guzy (World Press Photo, Picture of the Year)

Inclusive Nation by Marijn Fidder

The Mourning Tide: Reflections on the Coastal Water Crisis by Oyewole Lawal

To Be At War by Arin Yoon

Other Featured Portfolios

Nothing But Courage by Antoine Tardy

The People of Chelsea Project by Darlene DeVita and Sarah Putnam

Articles

Between Cups of Coffee: Damascus Adjusts to a Post-Assad Reality
by Lauren Walsh and photographs by Hosam Katan

Book Reviews

Subscribe or renew today to receive the current issue in print! Subscriptions and individual back issues of ZEKE Magazine are available on the ZEKE website. Link in bio. Follow

The Spring 2026 issue of ZEKE Magazine is now available.ZEKE is one of the few print magazines dedicated exclusively to ...
05/18/2026

The Spring 2026 issue of ZEKE Magazine is now available.

ZEKE is one of the few print magazines dedicated exclusively to documentary photography that engages with the world as it is—honestly, urgently, and beautifully. Each issue is crafted for readers who believe that carefully printed images still hold the power to inform, reveal, and inspire. Not only is each issue filled with outstanding visual stories about relevant issues, you can also hold it in your hands, put it on your coffee table, or keep it on your bookshelf.

Inside the current issue:

ZEKE Award Winners:
Out For Blood by Ginevra Bonina

Bullets Have No Borders by Ebrahim Alipoor

ZEKE Award Honorable Mentions:

Black Diamond and Tears by Supratim Bhattacharjee

Somewhere Else by Rory Grubb

ICE—Broken Families by Carol Guzy (World Press Photo, Picture of the Year)

Inclusive Nation by Marijn Fidder

The Mourning Tide: Reflections on the Coastal Water Crisis by Oyewole Lawal

To Be At War by Arin Yoon

Other Featured Portfolios

Nothing But Courage by Antoine Tardy

The People of Chelsea Project by Darlene DeVita and Sarah Putnam

Articles

Between Cups of Coffee: Damascus Adjusts to a Post-Assad Reality
by Lauren Walsh and photographs by Hosam Katan


Book Reviews

Subscribe or renew today to receive the current issue in print! Subscriptions and individual back issues of ZEKE Magazine are available on the ZEKE website. Link in bio.

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New on SDNNo Kings in NYC or USA By Kevin McKeon On March 28, 2026, an estimated 8 million people participated in prote...
05/13/2026

New on SDN

No Kings in NYC or USA
By Kevin McKeon

On March 28, 2026, an estimated 8 million people participated in protests across America, under the banner of “No Kings.” Perhaps no city in the world is as diverse and interconnected as New York City, and on this day, tens of thousands of New Yorkers representing every age, ethnic and religious group, and every socio-economic background, joined hands and raised loud voices to express their outrage over the ongoing threats against democracy.

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For the first time, SDN attended the annual ICP Photobook Fest to share and promote ZEKE Magazine. It was an exciting we...
05/12/2026

For the first time, SDN attended the annual ICP Photobook Fest to share and promote ZEKE Magazine. It was an exciting weekend in New York, reconnecting with friends and colleagues while meeting new photographers, publishers, and other members of the community. Thank you to everyone who stopped by, supported us, and spent time with the magazine.

For those who weren’t able to attend, ZEKE issues and subscriptions are available through the ZEKE website. We look forward to sharing more upcoming events and appearances from SDN soon.

1. Glenn Ruga and Barbara Ayotte at the ZEKE table.
2. David Campany, Tanya Marcuse, Glenn Ruga, and Michael O. Snyder at an SDN/ICP sponsored-panel featuring new books by Tanya and Michael.
3. Janet Jarman, Glenn Ruga, and Barbara Ayotte in front of a copy of Janet new book, “Birth Wars” published by FotoEvidence.
4. Barbara Ayotte and Donna Ferrato with “Holy” published by powerHouse Books.
5. Glenn Ruga with Ara Oshagan with Ara’s “A Poor Imitation of Death” published by Daylight books.
6. Alice Elizabeth Currey and Barbara Ayotte at the ZEKE table.

SDN is proud to share that the winners of the 2026 ZEKE Award have been featured by The Guardian. Congratulations to thi...
05/11/2026

SDN is proud to share that the winners of the 2026 ZEKE Award have been featured by The Guardian. Congratulations to this year’s recipients for their powerful and necessary work.

Ebrahim Alipoor wins the 2026 ZEKE award for documentary photography with his project “Bullets Have No Borders”

Ginevra Bonina wins the 2026 ZEKE award for systemic change with her project “Out For Blood”

Check out the feature in The Guardian at the link in our bio.

New on SDNMezcal: Ancestral Fire By Roland Hartley In Santa Catarina Minas, Mexico, mezcal is still made by hand using ...
05/07/2026

New on SDN

Mezcal: Ancestral Fire
By Roland Hartley

In Santa Catarina Minas, Mexico, mezcal is still made by hand using ancestral methods and honored each year with a local ritual blending labor, faith, and tradition. The annual blessing, marked by candles, offerings, and prayer, ties the work to the land and to a shared spiritual life.

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New on SDN The Kings Daughter is All Glorious Within By Tamar Shemesh The sheitel—the wig worn by ultra-Orthodox marrie...
05/06/2026

New on SDN

The Kings Daughter is All Glorious Within
By Tamar Shemesh

The sheitel—the wig worn by ultra-Orthodox married women—is a ritual rooted in both religious devotion and personal style. Through close access to women from the Crown Heights community in Brooklyn, this project traces the relationships women cultivate with their sheitels as an extension of the self; from the transitional moments of wedding ceremonies to everyday practices in wig salons and private spaces.

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