Since 2015, ZEKE Magazine, published by the Social Documentary Network, has presented the world's leading global documentary photography in print, twice a year. Each issue explores urgent topics, including climate change and environmental solutions, incarceration in the United States, the war against Ukraine, refugees and migration, human rights, equity and justice, and other issues of global concern.
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Contents of the Spring 2026 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
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 articles
Nothing But Courage by Antoine Tardy
The People of Chelsea Project by Darlene DeVita and Sarah Putnam
Between Cups of Coffee: Damascus Adjusts to a Post-Assad Reality by Lauren Walsh and photographs by Hosam Katan
Book Reviews/Briefly Noted