December 2016 Spotlight
Featured exhibits submitted to SDN in November 2016
by Victor Galeano/ Honduras
After the death of Berta Caceres, the Lenca community continues to experience conflict brought to the area by the hydroelectric plant "Agua Zarca". Since the project started in 2013, six people have died and the threats towards several defenders of the Gualcarque River continue...
by Sarah Blesener/ Russian Federation
This is an ongoing project that I began in 2016, focusing on patriotic education and ideology among youth in Russia and the USA. I see the contradiction between the freedom of youth and the indoctrination of war. This project is a search for an answer: why are we in love with the whimsy of war...
by Norberto Tongoy/ Philippines
In November 2013, the terrible typhoon Haiyan struck Philippines with such brutal force that left so many dead and homeless. It was one of the strongest tropical typhoons ever recorded. The damage was absolutely horrific. Images of death and suffering were blasted through media channels. Families gone...
by Diana Duarte/ Nicaragua
This is a project conceived from the point of view of empowering women in areas of extreme poverty to boost their knowledge, skills and enhance what they have inside. Focusing on women--single mothers, oppressed by their former partners, the sexist society ...
by Jim West/ United States
In the late 1850s, thousands of Mormons emigrated from Europe, bound for Utah. Where the rail lines ended in Iowa, those who could not afford oxen and covered wagons built carts that they pulled by hand across the plains and over the mountains. Hundreds died when caught by winter in Wyoming. Hand...
by Emiliano Cribari/ Italy
This is a photo project on a serious rare disease that affects children; currently in Italy only 10 cases were diagnosed and even the doctors don't know this syndrome well. So the families of these children are obliged to understand, test and treat the symptoms almost by themselves. Trisomy 9...
by Michele Zousmer/ United States
The Mississippi Delta sets the tone for all things southern -- good and bad. The hospitality is warm and engaging, the food is delicious and filling, the "Blues' are smooth and intoxicating. The Civil War and the civil rights struggles have left deep wounds. Unemployment ...
by B. D. Colen/ Canada
The Delmar is a diner in London, Ontario, an industrial city of about 360,000 that has seen better days. The Delmar is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but it is from opening to about 10:30 a.m. that it is in its glory, a place where everyone knows your face, and regulars and a handful of visitors...