2013 Julia Harper Day Award Winner: Hannah Scott
The Julia Harper Day Award was created by the Center for Documentary Studies in 1992 in memory of the young woman who was CDS’s first staff member, a writer and photographer of real accomplishment. This $500 award goes to a graduating Duke University senior who has demonstrated excellence in documentary studies and contributed significantly to [...]
CDS Relaunches Lange-Taylor Prize; Deadline Extended to May 7, 2013
The Center for Documentary Studies is proud to re-launch the Lange-Taylor Prize, which supports documentary artists—working alone or in teams—who are involved in extended, ongoing fieldwork projects that rely on and exploit, in intriguing and effective ways, the interplay of words and images in the creation and presentation of their work. The updated guidelines expand [...]
Gerard H. Gaskin Wins 2012 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography judge Deborah Willis, the renowned curator, historian, and photographer, has chosen Gerard H. Gaskin to win the prize for his black-and-white and color photographs that document the African American and Latino house and ballroom community. Willis says that she found Gaskin’s photographs “innovative and spirited,” the images filled with both [...]
March 1 Deadline for the John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards
This year marks the twenty-third anniversary of the John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards, given to undergraduates attending Triangle-area universities to help them conduct summer-long documentary fieldwork projects. The annual awards are given by the Center for Documentary Studies and are named for the noted scholar John Hope Franklin, the late professor emeritus of history at Duke University, in [...]
This Year, the CDS Documentary Essay Prize Honors Nonfiction: Deadline Extended to February 15
The new CDS Documentary Essay Prize honors the best in documentary photography and writing in alternating years. The first prize competition will be for writing; submissions will be accepted starting November 1, 2012 through February 15, 2013. The focus is on current or recently completed work (within the last two years) from a long-term project—fifteen images; fifteen to [...]
Watch Interview: Photographer Ben Lowy and Dancer (and Photographer) Mikhail Baryshnikov
In a recent episode of Reserve Channel‘s Capture with host Mark Seliger, 2010 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography winner Benjamin Lowy is interviewed along with dancer and photographer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Seliger, a renowned portrait photographer, Lowy, and Baryshnikov talk about Lowy’s work in Iraq | Perspectives along with his war and iPhone photography and Baryshnikov explains his transition [...]
2012 John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Award Winners and Their Projects; 2013 Award Guidelines
Established in 1989 by the Center for Documentary Studies, the John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards are named for the noted scholar John Hope Franklin, the late professor emeritus of history at Duke University, in recognition of his lifetime accomplishments and his dedication to students and teaching. CDS makes these awards to undergraduates attending North [...]
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Accepting Applications for 2013 Garrett Scott Grants
Now in its sixth year, the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant funds first-time documentary filmmmakers for travel and accommodations at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, April 4–7, 2013. For four days, grant recipients will be given access to films, participate in master classes, and be mentored by experienced filmmakers. Two filmmakers will be chosen [...]
Deadline for the 2012 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography Extended to September 22: Watch Video
Submissions will be accepted for the sixth biennial CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography June 15, 2012, through September 22, 2012.* The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and the Honickman Foundation co-sponsor this prestigious prize, the only one of its kind. The competition is open to American and Canadian citizens (and residents of the U.S. [...]
Confessions of a Photo Awards Juror: “In the End, I Could Only Go With the Portfolio That Drew Me in the Most.”
CDS Publishing and Awards Director Alexa Dilworth describes what drew her attention as she made her way through hundreds of portfolios submitted for the 2012 Daylight Photo Awards, and what distinguished the body of work she ultimately chose: I was honored when Taj Forer and Michael Itkoff asked me to be a juror for this [...]
First Book Prize in Photography Winner Benjamin Lowy’s “Iraq | Perspectives” Now Available as Enhanced E-Book
Iraq | Perspectives by 2010 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography winner Benjamin Lowy is now available as an enhanced e-book on iTunes. Lowy’s audio commentary brings his arresting color photographs of the war in Iraq to life. Those images—taken through Humvee windows and military-issue night vision goggles—and Lowy’s stories capture the desolation of a war-ravaged country as well [...]
2012 Julia Harper Day Award Winner: Logan Hasson
The Julia Harper Day Award was created by the Center for Documentary Studies in 1992 in memory of the young woman who was the Center’s first staff member, a writer and photographer of real accomplishment. This $500 award goes to a graduating Duke University senior who has demonstrated excellence in documentary studies and contributed significantly [...]
2012 CDS Filmmaker Award Goes to “Special Flight”
The fifteenth annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, a program of the Center for Documentary Studies, was held April 12–15 in downtown, Durham, North Carolina. The event featured screenings of more than a hundred films from twenty-seven countries; the fifty-seven films in the NEW DOCS program were eligible for this year’s awards—including the Center for [...]
Interview with John Cyr, Juror’s Pick, 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize
John Cyr Juror’s Pick (Anthony Bannon), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize “Crisp, contained, conceptual, and attractively self-conscious. A charm. Couldn’t be better.”—Anthony Bannon [director, George Eastman House] In response to the decline of darkroom developing in the digital age, John Cyr created a series of images of photographers’ developer trays “…so that the photography [...]
Out On DVD: 2011 CDS Filmmaker Award Winner, “How to Die in Oregon”
The winner of numerous honors, including the 2011 CDS Filmmaker Award and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentaries, How to Die in Oregon has been commercially released on DVD by Docurama Films . In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, an option that more than 500 Oregonians have taken. Filmmaker Peter Richardson examines both [...]
CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography Winner Benjamin Lowy Receives 2012 ICP Infinity Award
2010 First Book Prize winner Benjamin Lowy has won the prestigious 2012 ICP Infinity Award in photojournalism. ICP’s Infinity Awards were inaugurated in 1985 to bring public attention to outstanding achievements in photography by honoring individuals with distinguished careers in the field and by identifying future luminaries. Founded in 1974, the International Center of Photography is [...]
Interview with Lydia Goldblatt, Juror’s Pick, 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize
Interview with Lydia Goldblatt Juror’s Pick (Darren Ching), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize “Lydia Goldblatt’s photographs of her father are a refreshing and eloquent shift from the straightforward document of family. These are visual gems—encapsulated memories of an intimate relationship between father and daughter. The somber light not only serves as a distinct artistic [...]
Apply Now: March 1 Deadline for 2012 John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards
This year marks the twenty-second anniversary of the John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards. The awards are named for the noted scholar John Hope Franklin, the late professor emeritus of history at Duke University, in recognition of his lifetime accomplishments and his dedication to students and teaching. CDS makes these awards to undergraduates attending Triangle-area [...]
Video Available: Photographer Larry Schwarm on His Book “On Fire”
Interviews with all five winners of the biennial CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography are available on the prize’s new website; here, 2002 winner Larry Schwarm talks about his book On Fire, and how he tried to make the photographs of fires look the way they felt. Application information for the sixth biennial CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography competition will [...]
Interview with Lorenzo Martelli, Juror’s Pick, 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize
Interview with Lorenzo Martelli Juror’s Pick (Stacey Clarkson), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize “‘I am not my home,’ he kept telling me over and over, but one day he decided to let me in,’ explains Lorenzo Martelli regarding his endeavor to portray the private, melancholy world of Charlie, a disinherited Milanese count. Intimate and respectful, [...]
Video Available: Photographer Steven B. Smith on His Book “The Weather and a Place to Live”
Interviews with all five winners of the biennial CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography are available on the prize’s new website; here, 2004 winner Steven B. Smith talks with Maria Morris Hambourg, the founding curator of the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, about how the images of Southern California in The Weather and a Place [...]
Interview with Shane Lavalette, Juror’s Pick, 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize
Interview with Shane Lavalette Juror’s Pick (Whitney Johnson), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize What captivates you most about the South? The musical history of the South is so rich and complex, it made for a natural point of departure for this body of work. I’m captivated by the stories passed down in song, and how [...]
Interview with Baldomero Fernandez, Juror’s Pick, 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize
Interview with Baldomero Fernandez Juror’s Pick (Sasha Wolf), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize In what ways, if any, does your Cuban background impact your work? It impacts my work in subtle ways. I approach image-making with a different filter than someone with a different background. I believe every image-maker has their own filter dictated by [...]
Interview with Kris Vervaeke, Juror’s Pick, 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize
Interview with Kris Vervaeke Juror’s Pick (Stacey Clarkson), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize Many people fall into the grind of the corporate world and brush their passions aside. What motivated you to leave your corporate career and transition solely towards freelance photography? I had worked for more than fifteen years for the same company; I [...]
