Just got this email this morning from the PRC (Photographic Resource Center) Boston.

Ruga is the founder of www.socialdocumentary.net, a website and organization that he started in 2008 devoted to documentary photography. Today this website has more than 200 online documentary exhibits featuring diverse themes from around that world. For the last 25 years, Ruga was owner and creative director of Visual Communications, a graphic design studio-based in Lowell, Mass.-serving public service and corporate clients including the United States Campaign to Ban Landmines, Harvard Medical School, and Health Effects Institute.

From 1993 to 2006, Ruga founded and directed the Center for Balkan Development, an NGO advocating for justice in the Balkans and providing humanitarian and reconstruction assistance for victims of genocide. During his volunteer work with the Center, Ruga traveled to the region regularly to direct humanitarian and development projects and produced two traveling photographic exhibitions on war and peace in the region that traveled to locations throughout the U.S. and Europe.

The PRC, as the leading photographic organization in Boston with a 30-year history, will look to Ruga to continue the current schedule of exhibitions and public educational programs but also draw on his background to expand the focus of PRC by bridging the gap between documentary and fine art photography.

“I am honored by this appointment. Building on the 30 year success of the PRC as a renowned fine arts photography institution, I hope to draw on my background in documentary to bring a broader public interest to the organization, and to fine art photography, by recognizing the seismic shift in the medium since the advent of digital technology” stated Ruga.

PRC Board President, Cathy England, said of the appointment, “We are thrilled to welcome Glenn to the PRC. He brings with him passion and energy and a commitment to continuing the PRC’s preeminent role in the photographic community and the world at large.“

Ruga’s first day will be February 22. He will join Jason Landry and Caleb Cole to round out a dedicated and creative team of PRC staff and interns.

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