James Dodd, Juror’s Pick (Anthony Bannon), Work-in-Process Prize (2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
James Dodd Juror’s Pick, Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize “Whether in or out of the water, the series works with wonder and with purpose, and that is a winning combination. It is held tightly together by the grace of humor, awe, and consistent style that hold out promise for the work’s completion.”—Anthony Bannon Sport funding [...]
Baldomero Fernandez, Juror’s Pick (Sasha Wolf), Work-in-Process Prize (2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Baldomero Fernandez Juror’s Pick, Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize “Baldomero Fernandez’s project on downtrodden America may not be unique, but his tight, often-beautiful compositions of people and places feel masterful and extremely thoughtful. This is a project with social documentary implications that soars above those often self-imposed, rigid boundaries to become a more poetic art [...]
Tamas Dezso, Winner and Jurors’ Pick (Darren Ching and Sasha Wolf), Project Prize (2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Tamas Dezso Winner and Jurors’ Pick, Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize “Here, Anywhere by Tamas Dezso is a meditative series that presents an unresolved Hungarian post-communist identity. The outlook invoked is somewhat surreal, almost as though what is contained within the frame is caught in some sort of suspended animation—the beginning lost and an end [...]
Lydia Goldblatt, Juror’s Pick (Darren Ching), Work-in-Process Prize (2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Lydia Goldblatt Juror’s Pick, 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 voice but somehow imbues these [...]
David Pace, Winner, Work-in-Process Prize (2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
David Pace Winner, Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize I have been traveling to the small West African country of Burkina Faso annually since 2007. I spend the fall there teaching digital photography to American college students in a study abroad program through Santa Clara University. My students live in remote villages without electricity or running [...]
“Here, Anywhere: Photographs by Tamas Dezso,” and “2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards” Exhibition Reception October 4 at CDS
Here, Anywhere: Photographs by Tamas Dezso 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize winner 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Photographs by David Pace 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Award Works-in-Process Prize winner and John Cyr, James Dodd, Baldomero Fernandez, Lydia Goldblatt, Shane Lavalette, Sebastian Liste, Lorenzo Martelli, Kris Vervaeke, Juror Pick Winners September 19–December 22, 2011 University Gallery, [...]
2011 John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Prizewinners
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 [...]
Benjamin Lowy’s iPhone Photographs of Libya
Photojournalist Benjamin Lowy’s photographs of Libya, taken on his iPhone, are being featured on the MSNBC photoblog. Lowy is the winner of the 2010 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography. His book Iraq | Perspectives will be published in fall 2011 by Duke University Press. Read the announcement about William Eggleston selecting Benjamin Lowy for [...]
Announcing the Winners of the 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards
In recognition of mutual interests in documentary and fine art photography, Daylight Magazine and the Center for Documentary Studies started an international competition in 2010, the Daylight/CDS Photo Awards, to honor and promote talented and committed photographers, both emerging and established. 2011 Guest Jurors: Anthony Bannon, director, George Eastman House; Darren Ching, owner, Klompching Gallery, and [...]
Deadline Extended to May 15 for the Second Annual Daylight/CDS Photo Awards
In recognition of a mutual interest in documentary and fine art photography, Daylight Magazine and the Center for Documentary Studies started an international competition in spring 2010, the Daylight/CDS Photo Awards, to honor and promote talented and committed photographers, both emerging and established, in two prize categories, the Project Prize and the Work-in-Process Prize. Guest [...]
Full Frame Award Winners: CDS Filmmaker Award Plus Special Jury Award
The 2011 Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award, one of eleven awards presented at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (held April 14–17 in downtown Durham, North Carolina), went to How to Die in Oregon, directed by Peter D. Richardson. The profound and deeply intimate film takes a piercingly close look at the struggle of [...]
Interview with Monika Sziladi (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Monika Sziladi Jurors’ Pick (Julie Saul and Alec Soth), 2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize What sparked your initial interest for your “Wide Receivers” project? It’s enormously complex to try and map out the effect of one person’s behavior on another since each person’s emotional and intellectual make-up is shaped by that of [...]
Interview with Martin Roemers (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Martin Roemers Juror’s Pick (Jamie Wellford), 2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize What were you attempting to illustrate by the use of blurred images? What you see are moving people and vehicles. This illustrates the hectic activity and chaos which never stops in a city with so many people. Why were you particularly [...]
Interview with Paula McCartney (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Paula McCartney Juror’s Pick (Darius Himes), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize Could you describe your start in photography—how and why you first became interested in making photographs? It was in my third year of college. I had begun school by studying advertising, but in the second year realized it was too business orientated, [...]
Interview with Erica Allen (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Erica Allen Juror’s Pick (Hank Willis Thomas), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize Did you experience any type of change in your artistic practice when you moved cross country from Oakland, California to Brooklyn, New York? My artistic practice definitely shifted after moving to New York City. Previously my photographic work was all shot with [...]
William Eggleston Selects Benjamin Lowy to Win First Book Prize in Photography
Benjamin Lowy, a war and feature photographer with Reportage by Getty Images, has won the fifth Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography. Internationally renowned photographer William Eggleston judged the competition and chose Lowy to win the prize. He says, “Although I like the other photographers’ work, I felt that the Iraqi pictures [...]
Apply for the 2011 John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards
This year marks the twenty-first 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 [...]
Interview with Daniel Stier (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Daniel Stier Juror’s Pick (Darius Himes and Alec Soth), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize Where does the nature part of the project Man, Nature, Technology come into play? I found the title “Man, Nature, Technology” to have this utopian idea about science, which I’m trying to contrast with the real world of scientific [...]
Interview with Jan Lieske (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Jan Lieske Juror’s Pick (Jamie Wellford), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize We had trouble finding your biography: could you give us a brief history of what led you to this sort of photography? About seven years ago I got my first SLR camera. I started studying documentary photography and photojournalism at the FH [...]
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Accepting Applications for the 2011 Garrett Scott Grant
The Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant funds first time documentary makers for travel and accommodations at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, April 14-17, 2011. 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 for the grant in [...]
Interview with Priya Kambli (2010 Daylight/ CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Priya Kambli Juror’s Pick (Vince Aletti), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize As you described in your artist statement, you absolutely despised being photographed by your father when you were younger. What made you decide or realize that your passion was to become a photographer? Having grown in a household where photography was prevalent [...]
Interview with Rachel Barrett (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Rachel Barrett Juror’s Pick (Hank Willis Thomas), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize In juror Hank Willis Thomas’s statement about your project, he said that you “understand texture” and that your “serious search for connection with your subjects comes through in your images.” Do you think that this is a fair assessment of what [...]
Interview with Elizabeth Moreno (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Elizabeth Moreno Winner and Juror’s Pick (Vince Aletti), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize Why did you decide to do utilize diptychs in your work? This project started with the idea to portray the rancheros within their environment. Working with diptychs allows me to make more emphasis in the little details I find in [...]
Interview with Nandita Raman (2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Interview with Nandita Raman Winner and Juror’s Pick (Julie Saul), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize We read that the inspiration for the theme of your series, Cinema Play House, came from the fact that your mother used to own a movie theater. Can you talk about the connection you have to the cinema and why [...]
