Susan Guice
B. D. Colen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter and editor for The Washington Post and Newsday. He has covered the historic 1963 March on Washington for a weekly newspaper the week after he turned 17, and hasn't stopped shooting since. Colen has taught documentary photography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2001, and has also taught at the Harvard University Extension School, the Maine Media Workshops, and has taught private workshops.He is the author of 10 books on medically related subjects. His photography has appeared in, among other publications, The Boston Globe, The St. Louis Post Dispatch, The Baltimore Sun, Newsday, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Christian Science Monitor, and Time Magazine. Some 30 images from his ongoing subway project are included in the permanent collection of the Boston Public Library.September 2015 Spotlight
Featured exhibits submitted to SDN in August 2015
In the darkness of 3:30 am on the Stade Beach in Hastings, Sussex, Paul Joy and his crew prepare to set out to sea cuttle-fishing. For Paul and hundreds of other small fishing communities around the UK, it's a way of life going back nearly a thousand years. But they say that they're now ...
Dhaka's Hazaribagh area, widely known for its tannery industry, has been listed as one of the top 10 polluted places on earth by two international research organizations. At least 160,000 people have become victims of pollution due to the presence of toxic chemicals, mainly chromium...
Bandar Kong, one of the largest dhow boat-building plants in southern Iran, makes traditional cargo ships and fishing vessels built with wood
This project is a series of portraits of dog owners and their dogs in their neighborhoods. These people are blamed for taking care of their dogs and being kind to them by some people because owning dogs in Iran is illegal. The relationship between these pets and their owners are full of mutual love ...
Without Borders -- how borders affect daily life within Mexico, physically and metaphorically. The crossing between Tijuana and San Diego is the world's busiest border crossing which divides people of the two cities in a wide range of differences: language, culture, security. In another part ...
This project is about people. Random people (sometimes living) in the street. People you don't usually talk to, who have a story harder than most, usually. The gift of a beer, of food, of an ear, for a little while, the gift that they are not worthless and that they can cry if they want ...
When I embarked on a 6,500 km journey from Chicago to San Francisco following historic Route 66, my belief is always that traveling is first about experience. Photography matures from this experience. I yearned to learn if the American dream is still alive or if this is a myth. Sharing experience...
This series of photos shows some people who live in a tented village, an informal refugee camp, located on the outskirts of a town of Reyhanli, Turkey. Because this town is located right by the border of Syria, lots of Syrian refugees and seasonal workers go through this town.
In April, 1982, Argentina invaded the Malvinas Islands and the war with Britain was on. Not wanting to draft the sons of the ruling class, the military dictatorship reached into Northern Argentina and grabbed farm kids. Without giving them sufficient training, or appropriate gear, these kids were...
Epidermolysis bullosa, also called "butterfly disease", is a group of rare inherited skin diseases that are characterized by the development of blisters following minimal pressure to the skin. In the Republic of Moldova there are about 50 people with this disease. They are not recognized...
The news of the No Borders Camp, and the 150 or so stranded African migrants, who have been sent back from France in early June 2015, has come to be a hot news topic. It faded within a few days, as the newsworthy material happened to migrate north to Calais, and more recently, towards...
Most people in one way or another have been touched by cancer. Age, income, race, and social status doesn't matter, we are all vulnerable. Because of this, I began the project to show the strength and courage of those affected by the disease, whether they are patients or caregivers. The ...
Mumbai Sleeping illustrates the diversity of a basic human experience against India's vast socioeconomic gap. Mumbai is India's most affluent city yet nine million of its residents live in slums and over one million are homeless. Each day, approximately 1400 migrants flock from the...
This exhibit combines images created thirty years apart, with many of the "then and now" pairs including the same people and places. The series enables us to visually explore the impact of migration on specific families and communities...
Education is something that happens not only at school, it is a continual assimilation of potentially infinite understandings of concepts and ideas. Through our experience we are able to develop a concept of 'self' and awareness of others, this enables us to conceptualize and encourage...
