With one week to go before the Call for Entries deadline, it is  difficult to keep up with all the new exhibits. To keep this Spotlight to a manageable size, we are limiting the amount of text. To read the complete descriptions, click on the photographs to see the full exhibits on SDN. Later in the week we will publish a new Spotlight with exhibits submitted since May 31. 

Photo by Marj Clayton. Girls on the farm were taught how to make cheese by their mothers.

The Aymara have been enslaved since the arrival of the Spanish colonizers, having to work the land and the mines in exchange for food and shelter.

Photo by Paul McGuirk. Dead Tree, Hawley, MA 2007.

"I journeyed out along the highways and over the airwaves looking for symptoms of a virus and whenever possible took specimens with my little digital device." 

Photo by Lukas Maximilian Hueller. Etta is 11 years old and an orphan since she was five, when both her parents succumbed to the AIDS virus a few months apart.

When Austrian photographer Lukas Hüller and his international team went to Johannesburg, South Africa, to work with the children of the Ithuba Skills College on a visual interpretation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, their expectations were very soon exceeded.

This project is inspired by Arizona, its long history of immigration, and its political climate today.

Photo by Andreas Tschersich. peripher 1310 (New York).

The work New York/Detroit questions the preconceived images our minds recall upon mention of these North American metropolises.