guidelines and faqs
daylight/cds photo awards
An international photography competition
Please note that due to the high volume of requests, it is not possible for Daylight or CDS’s editors or exhibition staff to review unsolicited material outside of the Daylight/CDS Photo Awards competition.
schedule and deadline
• Submissions accepted from march 15–may 15, 2010
• deadline: saturday, may 15, 2010, 8 p.m. (edt)
Winners announced in June 2010.
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LEFT: Issaquena Street, downtown Clarksdale, Mississippi, summer, 1992. RIGHT: Man walking down 47th Street on the Southside of Chicago, winter, 1994. Images from "Cedric Chatterley: Photographs of Honeyboy Edwards, 1991-1996"
Cedric Chatterley, who currently has two exhibition on view at CDS, is featured in an article in Duke Today on March 9, 2010. Chatterley has a third exhibit currently on Duke’s campus as well: Cedric Chatterley: Photographs of Honeyboy Edwards, 1991–1996, at the Special Collections Gallery in Perkins Library. Chatterley’s photographs of Honeyboy are now archived at the Duke Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library.
view images from cedric chatterley: photographs of honeyboy edwards, 1991–1996
Download the Winter/Spring 2010 issue of Document
Document is a quarterly publication that features some of the best documentary work supported and produced by the Center for Documentary Studies. Each issue of Document includes a range of stories; for example, engaging interviews with photographers and other documentarians working locally, in their own communities, and on projects across the United States and abroad; compelling images and writing by young people documenting what’s important in their own lives; excerpts from books and exhibitions produced by CDS; a sampling of documentary film projects from around the world; ideas for creating your own documentary projects; and much more.
The Jazz Loft Project Exhibition Installation to Opening at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts from The Jazz Loft Project on Vimeo.
Filmed and edited by Courtney Reid-Eaton, exhibitions director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
The Jazz Loft Project exhibition opened at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center on February 17, 2010. Estimates are that 500 to 700 people attending the opening.
CDS Exhibitions Director Courtney Reid-Eaton traveled to New York (her home town) more than two weeks before the opening to install the show. She worked with LPA’s staff, led by Curator of Exhibitions Barbara Cohen-Stratyner and including Rene Ronda, Herbert Ruiz, Mike Diekmann, Laura Clifford, and Caitlin Mack.
Courtney documented the installation process on video, which she has edited into the following 8-minute sequence. It provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the painstaking world required to mount a show. The dimensions of every object are accounted for in regard to every inch of the space. There is selflessness to hanging exhibitions; the curators disappear and the artwork takes over. Courtney achieved this beautifully. She makes Jazz Loft Project staff (Dan Partridge, Lauren Hart, and me) and CDS look good. Gene Smith would be proud, too.
—Sam Stephenson
The Jazz Loft Project Exhibition is on view at the New York Public Library for Performing Arts through May 22, 2010.
More about the Jazz Loft Project
ethics in photography workshop
march 19-20, 2010
Richard White Lecture Hall, Duke University
A collaboration of the Duke University Center for International Studies, DukeEngage, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Kenan Institute for Ethics, and the Office of Research Support
DETAILS BELOW. The evening screening and the morning panel are free and open to the general public. The afternoon session is open to students only, and registration is required. FOR MORE INFO AND TO REGISTER: http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/programs/ethics-in-photography
friday, march 19, 7 p.m.
screening: stranger with a camera
Producer and Director: Elizabeth Barret (Appalshop, 58 minutes, 2000)
Richard White Lecture Hall
Free and open to the general public
Recommended viewing; the film raises many of the questions that panelists will pursue on Saturday morning. Director Elizabeth Barret will be on the morning panel.
saturday, march 20, 9:30 a.m.—noon
morning panel
Richard White Lecture Hall
Free and open to the general public
elizabeth barret, Documentary Filmmaker, Appalshop, Whitesburg, Kentucky
corinne dufka, Senior Researcher, Africa Division, Human Rights Watch and former Photojournalist, Reuters
wendy ewald, Senior Associate in Research, Center for Documentary Studies and Duke University Center for International Studies, and Visiting Artist, Amherst College
bonnie jo mount, Senior Photography Editor, The Washington Post
gilles peress, Professor of Human Rights and Photography, Bard College
Moderator: thomas keenan, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director, Human Rights Project, Bard College
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diane nilan / on the edge
March 16, 12-1:30 p.m.
Work-in-Progress Screening & Discussion
Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium
In this brown bag presentation (feel free to bring your lunch), Diane Nilan will present a short excerpt from On the Edge (working title), a film looking at the root causes and human consequences of homelessness. Featuring seven women who lost their housing for a variety of reasons, the film gives a painfully intimate look at the entwined connection between poverty, housing issues, social problems, addictions, family crises, and gender-related injustices. These compelling and forthcoming experts on homelessness shine a bright, unmitigated light on systemic and personal causes of their struggles, illuminating what has been a dark corner of social inaction and concern.
Photograph by Emily Drakage
exhibition opening
three hours. west main and broad streets. photographs by students in the visual storytelling workshop
Reception: Wednesday, March 10, 5–7 p.m.
Exhibition runs February 27–April 17, 2010
Still documentary photographs are worth a thousand negotiated meanings: They seek to explain how things are, while at the same time offer a photographer’s interpretation of the world. Documentary photography is not objective because photographers are human—subjectivity is inevitable. Photographers and viewers both may become politically engaged, educated, or emotionally involved by creating and/or experiencing these kinds of images.
On September 26, 2009, students enrolled in my Visual Storytelling workshop through the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) photographed the N.C. Pride Parade, a North Carolina–based LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) event held on West Main and Broad Streets, just beyond CDS’s doors. For some, the art of making documentary photographs was new; for others, it was not. But all of the students, regardless of their level of experience, applied the techniques we had reviewed in the two-day workshop when making their images of participants, bystanders, and (a few, but vocal) protesters. People in the parade were members of families, high school and college student groups, local business organizations, and church groups. And as expected, people exercised their First Amendment rights, and debates became heated at times. Law enforcement officials discreetly monitored the events. My students documented these multiple perspectives.
reality radio: telling true stories in sound
by John Biewen, editor / Alexa Dilworth, coeditor
Published by the University of North Carolina Press and CDS Books at the Center for Documentary Studies
launch event
Saturday, March 6, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Words on Sound: Book Launch and Signing
With contributors Ira Glass, the Kitchen Sisters, and Joe Richman
Third Coast Filmless Festival
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
“A book launch at a radio festival?! You got it. The TCF is thrilled to celebrate the launch of Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, a brand-new / first-of-its-kind collection of essays written by some of the most accomplished radio producers working today. Re:sound’s Gwen Macsai will join Reality Radio contributors Ira Glass (This American Life), Joe Richman (Radio Diaries) and the Kitchen Sisters (Hidden Kitchens, Lost & Found Sound) for a lively discussion—including lots of audio, of course—about what makes radio stories so damn special. Copies of Reality Radio will be available for purchase at a book signing following the event.”
The first issue of the newly-redesigned "Document"
The re-designed Document has launched and is going quarterly! Copies are available now in the front lobby at CDS. Or to be sure you receive every issue, join Friends of CDS.
Behind-the-scenes iPhone photographs of the Document press check by Bonnie Campbell.
Roger Hodge speaking at CDS in 2009. Photograph by Christopher Sims.
“my rise and fall: roger hodge on the state of magazines”
Friday, March 5, 7 p.m.
Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium
Roger Hodge, until recently the editor of Harper’s Magazine, will discuss the prospects of long-form journalism into the future as he recounts his experiences working with writers and offers his perspectives on the shifting landscape in the publishing industry.