Jurors
2026 ZEKE Award
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Barbara Ayotte is Communications Director for Social Documentary Network and Editor of ZEKE Magazine. She is also a communications strategist, writer and editor for leading nonprofit organizations. Barbara is the Senior Director of Strategic Communications at GBH, America’s preeminent public media organization and the largest producer of PBS content for television and the web and a major supplier of content for public radio and digital audio services. Barbara was the Senior Director of Strategic Communications for Management Sciences for Health, an international non-profit development organization working on global health issues in over 30 countries. Prior to that, she was Director of Communications for Physicians for Human Rights, a co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Greig Cranna is a professional photographer and the founder and director of BRIDGE, a photography gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Born in Vancouver, he eventually settled in New York City where he began his photography career. His clientele included The Council on Foreign Relations, The Japan Society, The International Typeface Corporation, ABC News, and the U.S. Dept. of Energy. An assignment for the Quebec-Labrador Foundation in 1978 sent him to the Quebec North Shore, beginning a 45 year love affair with the Canadian Maritimes. In that time he has worked extensively in Labrador, Newfoundland, Quebec and New Brunswick, shooting aquaculture, seabird research, ecotourism, and environmental issues. After relocating to Boston in 1982 he began shooting education, architecture, and commercial agriculture throughout the country. In the fall of 2018 he opened BRIDGE, a gallery devoted to showcasing the work of established and emerging photographers. After obtaining a commercial drone license in 2020 he has been traveling extensively, documenting the new generation of architect-designed bridges and their physical and cultural impact on the landscape.
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Gail Fletcher is a Photo Editor at The Guardian US where she develops and produces visual stories. She is also on faculty at the International Center of Photography. She was previously an Associate Photo Editor at National Geographic. Several of the projects she produced alongside editors and photographers received recognition from organizations including Pictures of the Year, ASME, and World Press Photo.
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For nearly 20 years Sarah Leen worked as an independent photographer for National Geographic magazine until 2004 when she joined the staff as a Senior Photo Editor. In 2013, Leen became the first female Director of Photography for National Geographic Magazine and Partners. She has won numerous awards for both her photography and photo editing from the Pictures of the Year and World Press Photo Awards. Leen teaches visual storytelling and photo editing at the Eddie Adams and Missouri Photo workshops and her own Female Perspectives in Visual Storytelling. She has edited ten photobooks since 2020 including Ukraine: A War Crime, the POY Photobook of the Year in 2023, and We Cry in Silence by Smita Sharma, the 2022 Lucie Book Award for Independent Book. In 2024, she received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from her alma mater the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
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Dewi Lewis was the first director of Cornerhouse, the arts centre at the heart of Manchester’s cultural renaissance in the mid-1980s, setting up a publishing venture that included seminal photobooks such as Martin Parr’s The Cost of Living and Tom Wood’s Looking For Love. Thirty years ago, he went independent with Dewi Lewis Publishing, which he still runs with his partner, Caroline Warhurst. Recent titles have included Laia Abril’s On Abortion, Louis Quail’s Big Brother and Dougie Wallace’s Well Heeled.
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Maggie Soladay is Senior Photography Editor at the Open Society Foundations in New York. Her work addresses racial, economic, and social justice issues around the world through photography. Soladay is always looking for photographers who are committed to using photography to document human rights issues. She has been working in the photography industry for over 25 years.
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