Glenn Ruga is a photographer, graphic designer and curator. He founded Social Documentary Network (SDN) in 2008 as a web platform for documentary photographers to present their work online, and in 2015 he launched ZEKE: The Magazine of Global Documentary.
As a photographer, he made traveling and online exhibitions on the struggle for a multicultural future in Bosnia, the war and its aftermath in Kosovo, and an immigrant community in Holyoke, Massachusetts. From 1993 to 2009 he led the Center for Balkan Development, and from 2010 to 2013 he was executive director of the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. He holds an MFA in graphic and advertising design from Syracuse University.
In our 2026 interview he spoke about how an editor reads a documentary story. “Sometimes photographers are the worst editors of their own work,” he said.
