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 [...]
Photographs from the Summer 2011 Video Institute
In this eight-day intensive, students are fully immersed in the process of documentary filmmaking. They collaborate with a partner to direct, shoot, edit, and screen a documentary short, which are screened to the general public at the end of the week. Click here for more information about CDS workshops and institutes
“The Parchman Hour” Play Presented at the Freedom Riders 50th Anniversary Reunion in Jackson, Mississippi in May 2011
The Parchman Hour brings to the stage powerful oral histories and conversations from the Freedom Rides’ most iconic protagonists and antagonists alike. Based on interviews, newspaper accounts, documentary imagery, and other primary sources, The Parchman Hour is the outgrowth of a yearlong residency by actor and playwright Mike Wiley, a visiting professor at the Center for [...]
Register Now for the Documentary Video Institute, June 4–June 11, 2011
In this eight-day intensive, students are fully immersed in the process of documentary filmmaking. Working in small production teams (one instructor for every four students) led by experienced documentary filmmakers, you will be introduced to an array of tools and techniques as you collaborate with a partner to direct, shoot, edit, and screen a documentary [...]
American Studies: Photographs by Jim Dow
In American Studies, Jim Dow documents places and things crafted and occupied by ordinary people for practical purposes that share inventiveness and resilience, that mix the makeshift with the carefully considered. For Dow, landscape is fashioned by those who leave their mark both in and out of doors; on signs and billboards, in barbershops, office [...]
Photographs from Advanced Documentary Photography: Vision and Craft with Alex Harris
Advanced Documentary Photography: Vision and Craft is designed for photographers who have created a relatively large body of images and want to learn more about how to edit and present those photographs to publishers, galleries, curators, and the general public. The workshop was taught at CDS from May 5–8, 2011. Learn more about Continuing Education at [...]
2011 CDS Certificate in Documentary Studies Undergraduate Presentations and Exhibition
Graduating seniors who are completing the Certificate in Documentary Studies at Duke University will present their final projects to the public in an open house celebration at the Center for Documentary Studies on May 1, 4–7 p.m. Sunday, May 1, 4–7 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC Beyond the Front Porch Featuring the work [...]
Jazz in New York: A Community of Visions, Photographs by Lourdes Delgado
An exhibition reception and gallery talk with Lourdes Delgado will take place on April 28, 6–9 p.m., at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In Jazz in New York, Spanish photographer Lourdes Delgado documents in spectacular detail the lives and personalities of contemporary New York jazz musicians. Exploring jazz from a social, economic, and [...]
Photographs from the 2011 Listening Institute
CDS hosted about 30 radio/audio makers March 17–20, 2011, for the second Listening Institute, a collaboration with the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Participants listened to and discussed audio work, much of it submitted by the participants themselves, and attended daily workshops covering essentials in radio production. The Listening Institute is led by CDS audio [...]
Photographs from Show+Tell: Multimedia Cross Training with Big Shed
Show + Tell is an intensive three-day institute for photographers, writers, radio producers, editors, publishers and other media makers who want to improve their ability to make gripping multimedia content. This cross training is designed for those with experience in field documentation (audio, photo, or writing), digital editing, and story construction. Participants learn fundamental skills [...]
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 [...]
Student Actors to Tour Mississippi with The Parchman Hour on 50th Anniversary of Freedom Rides
A busload of student actors, a noted playwright/actor, a civil rights historian, and several documentarians will be traveling to Mississippi over Spring Break (March 6-11) to present The Parchman Hour, an original play featuring the songs and stories of the 1961 Freedom Riders. For the ’61 Freedom Rides, a group of mostly young people, black [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tom Rankin with the Maasai Project in Kenya
CDS director Tom Rankin traveled to Kenya a second time in September to continue work with the Maasai community of Laikipia to document their own culture in order to preserve and protect Maasai creativity and history. The project is a partnership between CDS, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, the American Folklife Center [...]
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 [...]
