daylight/center for documentary studies @ goldenbelt
Join us for a free evening of multimedia projections featuring audio/visual presentations of contemporary photography projects.
June 11, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Durham, NC
7:30 p.m., drinks, snacks, and conversation
8:30 p.m., Daylight Multimedia Screenings and a special slide presentation of applicants’ work from the 2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards!
Directions to and information about Goldenbelt: http://www.goldenbeltarts.com/index.shtml
Directors of Undergraduate Studies Charles D. Thompson, Jr., and Tom Rankin with students receiving the Certificate in Documentary Studies. From left to right: Charles D. Thompson, Jr., Kevin Tolson, Kaitlin Rogers, Emily Robertson, Fei Lian, Lindsay Kunkle, Jennifer Kozin, Mary Ashton Inglis, Victoria Fleischer, Kate Findlay-Shirras, Michelle Fang, Cat Crumpler, Tom Rankin. Photograph by Christopher Sims. May 15, 2010.
undergraduate certificate in documentary studies graduation
may 15, 2010
The Certificate in Documentary Studies at Duke University is a program of study involving undergraduate students in community-based research using photography, filmmaking, oral history, and other documentary fieldwork methods. To receive the certificate, students must complete a minimum of six courses and a documentary project that they exhibit, present, publish, or otherwise disseminate to the public. The certificate program allows students to connect their educational experiences and creative expression to broader community life and to examine the representational and ethical issues related to this work.
Certificate students work in one or more documentary mediums—photography, filmmaking, writing, audio, community-based performance, among others—while exploring a particular issue, community, family, or individual. In addition to introductory courses in documentary mediums, the program also features special topics courses and a large number of cross-listed courses in other departments.
Twelve students completed their final projects in the Spring 2010 Capstone Seminar. They presented their projects at CDS on Sunday, April 25, during an afternoon celebration and BBQ.
From left to right: The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva), Ira Glass, Joe Richman, and Gwen Macsai at the "Reality Radio" book event in Chicago. Photograph by Alix Lowrey Blair. March 2010.
In March, the Third Coast Filmless Festival’s “Words on Sound” book launch event to celebrate the publication of Reality Radio was part of a full day of listening to sound-rich audio features made by some of the most influential producers working today. Held at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the event kicked off with an interview of coeditors John Biewen and Alexa Dilworth by Re:sounds’s Gwen Macsai, followed by performances by Reality Radio contributors Ira Glass (This American Life), the Kitchen Sisters (Hidden Kitchens, Lost & Found Sound), and Joe Richman (Radio Diaries).
Listen to audio from the festival
Singer-songwriter Abraham Levitan’s compositions, written and performed on the spot, followed each speaker. Listen to the song he wrote after hearing Macsai’s conversation with Biewen and Dilworth - “It’s a Book About Sound”
Event photography by Tom Rankin
brown bag lunch presentation of photographs by ed pincus
Ed Pincus, a filmmaker for more then 45 years, presented prints of photographs from his project — Mud Season — at the Center for Documentary Studies, April 12, 2010.
From left: John Biewen (seated) and Bob Edwards (at lectern). Photograph by Jodi Biewen.
reality radio book signing and talk at politics and prose, washington, dc
May 15, 2010
“Reality Radio is a fabulous book I wish I could have read when I started at NPR in 1974. It would have shaved 10–15 years off the learning curve in discovering how to make great radio.”—Bob Edwards, host of The Bob Edwards Show on Sirius XM Radio
student work from the 2008 and 2009 video institutes is now on-line on the cds itunes u site.
A few spaces remain for the summer 2010 video institute, but it’s expected that it will fill soon. Visit the CDS Continuing Education site to register today.
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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