Installation photograph of "Shared Origins: An Adoptive Family's Journey Back to Ethiopia"
Shared Origins: An Adoptive Family’s Journey Back to Ethiopia is on view at CDS through September 3, 2010.
Read the recent review of the exhibit by Blue Greenberg in Herald-Sun.
Tsehaye, Lory, and Zoe looking out over Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile and the largest lake in Ethiopia. Photograph by Elena Rue.
shared origins: an adoptive family’s journey back to ethiopia
Photographs by Elena Rue
July 19–September 3, 2010
CDS Porch and University Galleries
Reception: Tuesday, August 3, 5-8 p.m.
Elena Rue is a documentary photographer who explores issues associated with international adoption and orphaned children. As a 2006 Hine Fellow, a program of the Center for Documentary Studies, she spent nine months working with a local non-governmental organization in Ethiopia to document the lives of AIDS orphans in Addis Ababa. From 2007 to 2010, she worked for the Literacy Through Photography program at the Center for Documentary Studies, and she is currently pursuing a master’s degree at UNC–Chapel Hill in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Installation of the Jazz Loft Project exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center. Photograph by Courtney Reid-Eaton.
jazz loft exhibition opening reception july 23rd in chicago
The Jazz Loft Project exhibition features never-before-displayed vintage black-and-white prints and rarely heard audio recordings by photographer W. Eugene Smith, who spent eight years documenting the jazz musicians, artists, and underground characters who inhabited the scene at 821 Sixth Avenue. Curated by Sam Stephenson and Courtney Reid-Eaton of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the exhibition features more than 200 images, several hours of audio, and 16mm film footage of Eugene Smith working in the loft. The Jazz Loft Project will be on display from July 17 to September 19, in the Sidney R. Yates Gallery at the Chicago Cultural Center. Admission is free.
Chicago Cultural Center
78 East Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602
(312) 744-6630
www.chicagoculturalcenter.org
Open: Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.;
Saturday, 9 a.m.-6p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Closed holidays
opening reception
July 23, 6-8 p.m.
Free admission
gallery talk
August 26, 12 p.m.
A conversation with Sam Stephenson, Jazz Loft Project director and curator of the exhibition.
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Davia Nelson (left) and Nikki Silva (right)
reality radio performance & book signing with the kitchen sisters
A public event in conjunction with CDS summer audio institute, Hearing Is Believing
Monday, July 26, 7 p.m.
Bay 7, American Tobacco Complex, Durham, North Carolina
Award winning National Public Radio producers, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva of The Kitchen Sisters, began their collaboration within documentary arts over twenty-five years ago. Their renowned partnership has been responsible for some of the most intimate, provocative, and sound-rich documentary work to date. Hidden Kitchens, their duPont Award winning radio series, reveals a world of legendary meals, curious eating habits and long forgotten tradition. Lost & Found Sound series, heard on NPR’s All Things Considered, reveals a tapestry of richly layered audio artifact. Seeking out seldom-heard voices of Americans all across the county, the Kitchen Sisters weave together a sound-score that concerns itself with how sound shapes history and how history has been shaped by sound. They are currently producing NPR series The Hidden World of Girls - Girls and the Women They Become, an in-depth exploration of coming of age rituals, hidden identities, and portraits of extraordinary ordinary women.
Read more about the CDS publication Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound.
Directions: http://www.americantobaccohistoricdistrict.com/directory.html
Paid parking is available in the North Parking Deck off Pettigrew Street.
"To hear; an image made for science class by third-grade students at Arusha School." From the Literacy Through Photography project in Arusha, Tanzania.
literacy through photography - arusha, tanzania exhibition
june 28, 2010 - january 8, 2011
opening reception: thursday, october 21st, 6 - 9 p.m.
talk by katie hyde: 7 p.m
panel discussion: thursday, november 4th, 7 p.m.
The Literacy Through Photography program at CDS will present an exhibition of photographs documenting its long-term involvement with the schools and students in Arusha, Tanzania.
The LTP Project in Arusha, Tanzania, began in 2004 when Sister Cities of Durham brought two Tanzanian teachers to the Center for Documentary Studies to attend an LTP workshop. Building on these connections, LTP staff traveled to Arusha in 2007, 2008, and 2009 to offer workshops to hundreds of primary school teachers, from all over the district, and to co-teach lessons that involved more than 2,000 students. The summer of 2010 marks the third year that the DukeEngage program has supported Duke University students in their work with the LTP project in Arusha.
These experiences culminated with public exhibitions of children’s work in Arusha, some of which is included in this exhibition. Also on display will be photographs that document the collaborative LTP process.
Installation photograph of the exhibition "The Ripple Effect: A Visual Response to the Contemporary Civil Rights Agenda" in the University Gallery
friday, may 21, 2010
cds continuing education reception & presentations
reception: 5-6:30 p.m.
center for documentary studies at duke university
In conjunction with the exhibition The Ripple Effect: A Visual Response to the Contemporary Civil Rights Agenda (through May 21, University Gallery), works in progress by students in the Spring 2010 Continuing Education course Asking Why: Approaches to Social Documentary Photography, taught by Sheila Turner
The reception will also honor the Spring 2010 graduates of the Certificate in Documentary Arts program at the Center for Documentary Studies.
certificate final project presentations: 7 p.m.
richard white auditorium, east campus, duke university
Throughout the year, CDS offers continuing education courses in the documentary arts for the general public. These courses, taught by working professionals, are designed to help students of all ages and backgrounds gain the skills they need to explore doing documentary work on their own terms. Over the past eleven years, students in the certificate program have produced photography, film and video, audio, multimedia, and writing projects on a diverse range of topics. These projects often move out into the world to larger audiences in the form of exhibits, installations, websites, and other creative artworks. This event showcases the latest of these final certificate projects, completed in the Final Seminar in Documentary Studies, taught this spring by Nancy Kalow.
Paul Kwilecki, 2009. Cell phone photograph by Tom Rankin.
Paul Kwilecki, born in 1928 in Bainbridge, Georgia, died in his hometown in early December 2009. Kwilecki had been associated with the Center for Documentary Studies and Duke University since the late 1970s; the Paul Kwilecki Collection was one of first and most prominent collections to be acquired by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library’s Archive of Documentary Arts.
Perhaps the most important late-twentieth-century photographer you’ve heard little to nothing about, Kwilecki spent most of his days in his hometown and county, schooling himself by carefully studying contemporary photography and corresponding with a range of artists and photographers, most notably and regularly David Vestal. In 1981 he published Understandings (University of North Carolina Press), which was edited by Alex Harris.
Kwilecki set out to photograph his home in Decatur County, Georgia, and did so for over forty years. He often would say that his hometown was “a place that some say has no meaning.” But like William Faulkner, who stayed home to create his remarkable body of literature, Kwilecki had a different vision. “The task is complicated,” he said at a lecture at Duke in 2001. “I am one man, one mind, one pair of eyes trying to distinguish what is significant in an entire community.” He went about this work with a deep honesty, following his own instincts, his own point of view. “I rearrange the sacred furniture,” he said. “Because my brain, not my camera, is my instrument, beauty isn’t enough.”
Paul Kwilecki was a dear friend of the Center for Documentary Studies, someone who will forever provide an example of in-depth documentary work about one place through time. “I photograph subjects who are, to me, vivid and substantial,” he once said. “I leave everything else alone.”
—Tom Rankin, director of the Center for Documentary Studies
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–june 1, 2010
• deadline: tuesday, june 1, 2010, 8 p.m. (edt)
Winners announced during the week of July 12, 2010.
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center for documentary studies announces new internship program
The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University is accepting applications for nine-month internship positions that will begin in September 2010 and end in May 2011. The interns will gain broad experience in the documentary field, with particular focus on exhibiting, publishing (print and web), and producing a range of materials related to the documentary arts. Two positions are available. (See more detailed descriptions below.) The interns will be based at CDS in Durham, North Carolina, for the 2010-11 academic year.
To qualify, applicants should be recent college graduates (no more than three years out of school) who demonstrate excellent communications abilities, pay careful attention to details, balance initiative and drive with congeniality and team play, show creative talent, and exhibit achievement in some aspect of the documentary arts. CDS internships require a commitment of 30 hours per week, and interns receive a monthly stipend of $1,000.
Interns will be expected to participate as staff colleagues in all CDS activities.
The Center for Documentary Studies offers an interdisciplinary program in the documentary arts—photography, audio, film/video, narrative writing, and other means of creative expression—that emphasizes active engagement in the world beyond the university campus. Much more than a traditional educational center, CDS encourages experiential learning in diverse environments outside the classroom, with an emphasis on the role of individual artistic expression in advancing broader societal goals. Programs range widely to include university undergraduate courses, popular summer institutes that attract students from across the country, international awards competitions, award-winning book publishing and radio programming, exhibitions of new and established artists in our own galleries, and fieldwork projects in the U.S. and abroad. READ MORE: http://cds.aas.duke.edu
To apply to be part of the 2010-11 internship program, send a cover letter, resume, writing sample, one letter of recommendation, and a personal statement of goals and intent for the internship to Lauren Hart at lh90@duke.edu. Please send all materials as electronic files with “internship applicant (applicant’s name) – (exhibitions or publishing)” in the e-mail subject line. Ideally, the recommendation letter should be sent as a PDF directly from the person who is recommending the applicant, with the same information in the e-mail subject line.
deadline: June 1, 2010.
brother towns/pueblos hermanos
April 21, 6:30–8:30 p.m.
Griffith Film Theater, West Campus, Duke University
Directed by Charles D. Thompson, Jr. and Michael Davey
Associate Director: Margaret Morales
A Project of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
The documentary film Brother Towns / Pueblos Hermanos is a story of two towns linked by immigration, family, and work: Jacaltenango, a highland Maya town in Guatemala; and Jupiter, a coastal resort town where many Jacaltecos have settled in Florida.
Brother Towns chronicles a story of how and why people migrate across borders, how people make and remake their communities when they travel thousands of miles from home, and how people maintain families despite their travel. Because we are all immigrants, this is a universal human story, and a quintessential American one.
Brother Towns is also a story of local and international controversy. News of undocumented immigrants is familiar in nearly every community across the U.S., and citizens must choose how they respond. The film includes voices of those opposed to undocumented immigrants as well as advocates helping migrants who seek work and hope, whether documented or not.
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