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 [...]
Watch Videos: Final Projects of Fall 2011 Certificate in Documentary Arts Graduates
Throughout the year, CDS offers continuing education courses in the documentary arts to people of all ages and backgrounds. Some choose to enroll in the Certificate in Documentary Arts program, which offers a more structured sequence of courses culminating in the Final Seminar in Documentary Studies, where students finish and present a substantial documentary work—photography, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Interview with David Pace, 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize Winner
Interview with David Pace Winner, Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize The images in Friday Night seem formally quite different from your other work, such as Re: Collections, or even the series Kiosks and Market Day from Burkina Faso. Would you agree? You are quite right that the images in Friday Night are different from my [...]
Interview with Tamas Dezso, 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize Winner
Interview with Tamas Dezso Winner and Jurors’ Pick (Darren Ching and Sasha Wolf), Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize How did you become interested in photography? How did you decide it was to be something that you wanted to pursue seriously? Following the political changes of 1989 when the Russian army withdrew, having been stationed in [...]
John Cyr, Juror’s Pick (Anthony Bannon), Project Prize (2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
John Cyr Juror’s Pick, Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize “Crisp, contained, conceptual, and attractively self-conscious. A charm. Couldn’t be better.”—Anthony Bannon From the mid-nineteenth century until today, silver gelatin printing has been one of the most utilized photographic processes, and until the mid-1970s, from classic reportage to fine art, a majority of photographs were produced [...]
Podcast Available: “Can Photography Make You a Better Doctor?: Reflections on a Life in Photography and Medicine,” By John Moses
In this talk, “Can Photography Make You a Better Doctor? Reflections on a Life in Photography and Medicine,” Duke pediatrician and photographer John Moses discusses how he has used photography over the past twenty-five years to better understand the lives of his patients and hopefully to become a better doctor. Moses first came to photography [...]
Kris Vervaeke, Juror’s Pick (Stacey Clarkson), Project Prize (2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Kris Vervaeke Juror’s Pick, Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize “Kris Vervaeke’s collection of photographs documenting decaying images found on tombstones in China demonstrates tremendous grace and intelligence. With uncommon elegance, the project provides viewers contemplative space to ponder its many layers of meaning involving ritual, loss, time, community, and even photography itself. It is a [...]
Lorenzo Martelli, Juror’s Pick (Stacey Clarkson), Work-in-Process Prize (2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Lorenzo Martelli Juror’s Pick, 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, these thoughtful black-and-white photographs [...]
Sebastian Liste, Juror’s Pick (Whitney Johnson), Project Prize (2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Sebastian Liste Juror’s Pick, Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize “For two years, Sebastián Liste has photographed the daily lives of over one hundred families who formed a community in an abandoned chocolate factory in Brazil. His long-term commitment to the project has revealed an intimate and complex story—one that captures not only the consequences of [...]
Shane Lavalette, Juror’s Pick (Whitney Johnson), Work-in-Process Prize (2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards)
Shane Lavalette Juror’s Pick, Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize “Young Shane Lavalette has already demonstrated his commitment to the photography industry: As the founder and editor of Lay Flat, he is collaborating with photographers to create books that reflect each artist’s vision. Here, we see Shane’s own view, a series of color images that consider [...]
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 [...]
Leah Sobsey: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Leah Sobsey will be teaching the Alternative Process Workshop for photography in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Leah Sobsey is an artist and educator. She received her M.F.A. from the [...]
Meg Daniels: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Meg Daniels will be teaching Visual Storytelling in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Meg Daniels grew up in upstate New York, where she received her B.F.A. from the Rochester [...]
Continuing Education Certificate Projects Spring 2011
View the final projects of the graduates in the Certificate in Documentary Arts program in spring 2011: John Crane, Paul Deblinger, Eric Douglas, Chelsea Flowers, Conrad Fulkerson, Paige Greason, Jeremy Helton, Eileen Heyes, and Kurney Ramsey, Jr. Videos are available to watch here and on CDS Vimeo. Read more about the spring 2011 Certificate in [...]
Kelvin De’Marcus Allen, W. Calvin Anderson, Jaisun McMillian, and Victor Stone: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructors
Kelvin De’Marcus Allen, W. Calvin Anderson, Jaisun McMillian, and Victor Stone will be teaching Then and Now: A Hayti Civics Course in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Kelvin De’Marcus [...]
Full Frame 2011 Movies on the Lawn Summer Series
For the second year in a row, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is collaborating with American Tobacco to present Movies on the Lawn. This summer’s series features four music documentaries that will take you on a journey from music fan to concert goer to reminiscing with iconic songwriting legends. Screenings are free and open [...]
