Kevin Tolson. Photograph by Harlan Campbell.
2010 julia harper day award winner: kevin tolson
The Julia Harper Day Award was created in 1992 by the Center for Documentary Studies in memory of the young woman who was the Center’s first staff member and who, herself, was a photographer and writer of significant accomplishment. This award of $500 recognizes a graduating Duke senior who has demonstrated excellence in documentary studies and has contributed significantly to CDS programs.
This year’s 2010 Julia Harper Day award is senior Kevin Tolson of Baltimore, Maryland. A political science major, with a focus in American government and politics, Kevin is graduating with Distinction in Documentary Studies. For his final project in documentary studies Kevin created, The Sweet Science: The Story of NBS Boxing Gym, a film that highlights the story of a boxing gym in Raleigh, North Carolina, and its young fighters. He is among the first students at Duke to graduate with distinction in an arts-based program outside his major.
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Jeff Main repairing cultivator, Main Family Farm, Good Humus Produce, Capay, California. Photograph by Alix Lowrey Blair.
the art of farming: a public symposium
December 4–5, 2009
keynote speaker: verlyn klinkenborg
“Farming and the Problem of Complexity”
December 4, 7:30 p.m., ETC Auditorium, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham
Presented by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
In conjunction with the national documentary project Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families
verlyn klinkenborg, widely known for his literary meditations on rural life, will give the opening-night keynote address for a public symposium looking at the farming of food as a place-based creative act and a central metaphor for contemporary community. Klinkenborg, whom Tom Brokaw has called “our modern Thoreau,” will speak on “Farming and the Problem of Complexity” on Friday, December 4, at 7:30 p.m. at the ETC Auditorium, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham (driving directions link below).
“Verlyn Klinkenborg is the ideal writer and thinker to address the important issue of rural life, creativity, and traditions of farming,” says Tom Rankin, director of the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University. “His distinctive literary voice provides a beautiful accompaniment to the range of documentary work at CDS about farm life.”
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Pigs drinking water, Wise Family Farm, Whitakers, North Carolina. Photograph by Tom Rankin, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
five farms: stories of american farm families
whitakers, north carolina
photographs by tom rankin, center for documentary studies at duke university
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Peach trees in bloom, Main Family Farm, Good Humus Produce, Capay, California. Photograph by Alix Lowrey Blair.
five farms: stories of american farm families
capay, california
photographs by alix lowrey blair
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Laramie Ogden, son-in-law of Craig and LaVon Griffieon, with his dog, Xena, Griffieon Family Farm, Ankeny, Iowa. Photograph by Elena Rue, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
five farms: stories of american farm families
ankeny, iowa
photographs by elena rue, center for documentary studies at duke university
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Sherry Hager in the pasture, Hager Brothers Farm, Colrain, Massachusetts. Photograph by Steve Schapiro.
five farms: stories from american farm families
colrain, massachusetts
photographs by steve schapiro
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The Pecusas’ cornfield, Hopi Reservation, Arizona. Photograph by Andrew Lewis.
five farms: stories from american farm families
hopi reservation, arizona
photographs by andrew lewis
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