Ryan Spencer Reed

Biography

Ryan Spencer Reed’s work has been exhibited at the New-York Historical Society, the Institute for Contemporary Art/Boston, and the Field Museum of Natural History, among other places. He attended the Eddie Adams Workshop by invitation and was a finalist for the 2015 Leica Oskar Barnack Award. His collaboration with Erika Meitner, “This Is Not a Requiem for Detroit,” was featured in the Spring 2011 issue of VQR. To view the rest of this series, please visit his website.

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ESSAYS / Fall 2016

RNC CLE

By Erika Meitner ,  Photography by Ryan Spencer Reed

Erika Meitner’s poetry and prose, combined with photography from Ryan Spencer Reed, take us inside the city of Cleveland during the Republican National Convention.

Photography by Ryan Spencer Reed
ESSAYS / Spring 2011

This is Not a Requiem for Detroit

By Erika Meitner ,  Photography by Ryan Spencer Reed

I was born in Queens in 1975—the year of the infamous New York Post cover “Ford to City: Drop Dead,” when New York City was about to declare municipal bankruptcy, and the federal government was desperately trying to divorce urban America...