Ruga named director of PRC

Glenn Ruga of Concord has been named the new executive director of the Photographic Resource Center, the Boston nonprofit announced today. He is expected to begin work on Feb. 22, filling the shoes of Jim Fitts.

In 2008, Ruga founded socialdocumentary.net, a website and organization devoted to documentary photography. For 25 years, he was owner and creative director of Visual Communications, a graphic design studio in Lowell. From 1993 to 2006, Ruga founded and ran the Center for Balkan Development, an non-governmental organization “advocating for justice in the Balkans and providing humanitarian and reconstruction assistance for victims of genocide.”