Spotlight: Photojournalism in the Behance Network

By Behance Team

Photo by Rick Bajornas from the series "Ethiopian" - 2007

In just a few short weeks, the Behance Network has already become a platform for projects that - once just ideas - are now fully realized. In our new series of "Spotlight" articles, we celebrate some of the unique and inspiring creative work emerging in the Behance Network. Our team will stay on the lookout for themes and creative collaborations of interest to the creative professional community.

The spotlight shines today on an emerging group of photojournalists in the Behance Network. Armed with cameras, curiosity, and artistic brilliance, photojournalists can enlighten us with the life in foreign lands, as well as the unknown life around (and beneath) our own neighborhoods.

We start in our home city of New York, where Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu has captured both the struggles and beauty of Spanish Harlem in Life On The Block. Since April of 2002, Adriana has been documenting the lives of young Puerto Rican women and their families living in Spanish Harlem. This project also helped her win the 2006 NPPA-Nikon Sabbatical Grant.

Moving further downtown, photojournalist Rick Bajornas has captured another NYC perspective in New York Streets, a collection of photographs gathered between 2002-2007.

But what is a trip to New York City without an experience underground? Capturing the city's daily underground grind is Terminal by Ryan Brown.

While these esteemed photojournalists have covered the ins and outs of New York City, they have also traveled afar.

Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu spent August 2005 in Mississippi with families recovering from Katrina. Her photographic essay, titled Mississippi, A Year After Katrina, reveals the human side of recovery, day by day.

In contrast to his underground exploration of New York, Ryan Brown's Exploring the Tibet illuminates a mysterious city. And, in another continent, we complete this Behance Spotlight with Rick Bajornas' excursion through Ethiopia, documented in his moving piece, Ethiopian.

You are welcome to further explore the portfolios of these productive photojournalists (and many more) in the Behance Network: