Babygirl with scratches she got fighting another woman while she was in prison. Hunts Point, South Bronx 2007. Photograph by Tiana Markova-Gold from the project "you must not know 'bout me..." (Sex Workers Project / Hunts Point).
announcement of 2010 prizewinners
2010 winners: tiana markova-gold and sarah dohrmann
honorable mention awarded to kitra cahana and chris urquhart
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the twentieth Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize to photographer Tiana Markova-Gold and writer Sarah Dohrmann, both Americans. The $20,000 award is given to encourage collaboration in documentary work in the tradition of acclaimed American photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. Lange and Taylor worked together for many years, most notably on fieldwork that resulted in American Exodus (1941), a seminal work in documentary studies.
Tiana Markova-Gold and Sarah Dohrmann’s project, “If You Smoke Cigarettes in Public, You Are a Prostitute: Women and Prostitution in Morocco,” is an investigation of female prostitution in Morocco and the experiences of two American non-Muslim women documenting women’s lives in a country where pre-marital virginity is considered sacred. With their project, they “seek to dismantle Americans’ preconceived notions of the prostitute as sexual deviant and the hijabed woman as ‘exotic’” and examine the negotiation of relationships “between the prostitute and the society she lives in, between the artist and the subject, between non-Muslim and Muslim women, between women.”
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Children playing with ballons donated by the Catholic Church for the Pope's visit, Havana. Photograph by Ernesto Bazan.
artist talk with photographer ernesto bazan
February 17, 5 p.m.
Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium
Internationally renowned photographer Ernesto Bazan will talk about his extensive work photographing in Cuba over the past fourteen years and about developing his recent book BazanCuba, which won the prestigious Best Photo Book of the Year Award at the 2009 New York Photo Festival. In 2008, Bazan, who has published four previous books with independent publishers, created a new publishing house, BazanPhotos.
Ernesto Bazan’s residency at Duke University is presented by the Center for Documentary Studies in association with the Cuban American Student Association, with support from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Duke Student Government’s Student Organization Finance Committee.
"Bazan Cuba," published in 2008.
finding your voice through photography: a workshop with ernesto bazan
Thursday, February 18, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (5 hours credit toward Certificate in Documentary Arts)
Center for Documentary Studies, Room 001
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Course Fee: FREE
(Application required – Qualifies for 5 hours credit toward the Certificate in Documentary Arts)
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dorothea lange-paul taylor prize
Application deadline: January 31, 2010
The year 2010 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor documentary prize, a $20,000 award given annually by the Center for Documentary Studies. First announced a year after the Center’s founding at Duke University, the prize was created to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of the acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. In 1941 Lange and Taylor published An American Exodus, a book that renders human experience eloquently in text and images and remains a seminal work in documentary studies. The Lange-Taylor Prize honors their important collaborative work.
The Lange-Taylor Prize is offered to a writer and a photographer in the early stages of a documentary project. By encouraging such collaborative efforts, the Center for Documentary Studies supports the documentary process in which writers and photographers work together to record the human story.
Download the application or learn more about the prize.
The photograph shown above on the guidelines is by Robert Dawson. He and Gray Brechin received the Lange-Taylor Prize in 1992 for their project Farewell Promised Land.
From "The Oxford Project." Photography by Peter Feldstein. Text by Stephen G. Bloom.
doc u arts 2009: words and images
october 8–11, 2009
An intensive weekend of lectures, discussions, and small-group sessions focused on narrative nonfiction writing and the interplay between words and images in the creation of documentary work
The Doc U Arts institute, a gathering for more advanced students and professionals in the field, begins on Thursday evening and ends at 3 p.m. on Sunday. The course fee, $375, includes all events and hands-on sessions with top documentary practitioners in small-group settings. Evening events are open to the general public, with a $5 suggested donation.
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Scrap metal thieves, or 'merchants,' dismantle a part from an elevator shaft before melting it down and selling parts to a middle man. The machine parts in elevators are the most popular to steal, as they are fairly small but heavy, netting thieves an average of $150 USD. Many citizens of Ukraine indulge in extracurricular scrap metal hunting, helping to supplement meager salaries. Dnepro-Dzerzhinsk, Ukraine. Photograph by Donald Weber, winner of the Lange-Taylor Prize in 2006 with writer Larry Frolick.
pdn magazine
PDN magazine article, “How to Win A Lange-Taylor Prize,” details winning proposals by Lange-Taylor Prize recipients from recent years
- The ruins of Kabul, in the aftermath of sectarian fighting that reduced vast stretches of the city to rubble, Afghanistan, 2002. Photograph by Teru Kuwayama.
“unnatural borders, open wounds: the human landscape of pakistan”
by teru kuwayama and christian parenti
winners of the dorothea lange-paul taylor prize
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the nineteenth Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize to photographer Teru Kuwayama and writer Christian Parenti, both Americans. The $20,000 award is given to encourage collaboration in documentary work in the tradition of acclaimed American photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. Lange and Taylor worked together for many years, most notably on fieldwork that resulted in American Exodus (1941), a seminal work in documentary studies.
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