Listen to Student Audio Documentary Projects
Short audio documentaries from undergraduate students in the Fall 2010 Introduction to Audio Documentary course and Spring 2010 The Short Audio Documentary course with John Biewen have been posted on CDS iTunesU. Listen to student audio projects here* *The piece “Friends With Benefits” contains explicit material that may be offensive to some listeners and may [...]
The Art of Farming
The Art of Farming Photographs and Audio by Undergraduates at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Farming is among the oldest expressions of human culture. For a documentary artist or student, the farmer and his/her land present potent ground on which to create original artwork that explores and reflects central issues of our day. [...]
“Coming Home: Stories of Homelessness and Finding Home Again,” Presentation of Student Documentary Projects December 6
Ten Duke undergraduates spent the fall semester documenting the people and programs of Housing for New Hope (HNH), an organization that has been working for almost twenty years to prevent and end homelessness in Durham County and Orange County, North Carolina. As part of the course Documentary Engagement, the students were required to spend more than [...]
“In My Mind” Film
In My Mind Director: Gary Hawkins, Producer: Emily LaDue, Executive Producer: Tom Rankin In My Mind, a new film from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, traces the creation and performance of jazz pianist Jason Moran’s original interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s legendary performance at New York City’s Town Hall in 1959. Deeply inspired [...]
2010 Julia Harper Day Award Winner: Kevin Tolson
The Julia Harper Day Award was created in 1992 by the Center for Documentary Studies in memory of the young woman who was the Center’s first staff member and who, herself, was a photographer and writer of significant accomplishment. This award of $500 recognizes a graduating Duke senior who has demonstrated excellence in documentary studies [...]
Literacy Through Photography – Arusha, Tanzania Exhibition
Literacy Through Photography – Arusha, Tanzania June 28, 2010 – January 8, 2011 Kreps and Lyndhurst Galleries Opening Reception: Thursday, October 21st, 6-9 p.m. Talk by Katie Hyde: 7 p.m. Panel Discussion: Thursday, November 4th, 7 p.m. The Literacy Through Photography program at CDS will present an exhibition of photographs documenting its long-term involvement with [...]
Undergraduate Certificate in Documentary Studies Graduation Ceremony Spring 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 [...]
“Children and the Experience of Illness” Exhibit
Children and the Experience of Illness — 2010 First Floor Exhibit Hall, Duke North Hospital Durham, North Carolina May 10–23, 2010 Opening Reception: Friday, May 14, 4:30–6 p.m. Photographs produced by young patients and their Duke student mentors, from the class “Children and the Experience of Illness,” taught at the Center for Documentary Studies at [...]
Photographs from the “Children and the Experience of Illness” Exhibition
Photographs from the opening reception for an exhibition of photographs produced by young patients and their Duke student mentors, from the class “Children and the Experience of Illness,” taught at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. The photographs were exhibited at Duke North Hospital, May 10–23, 2010. Each year for the last 11 years, [...]
April Jazz Loft Events at the New York Public Library
April 2010 Jazz Loft Project Related Events at the New York Public Library “Hall Overton: Out of the Shadows” Wednesday, April 14, 2010 6 p.m. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center Bruno Walter Auditorium 111 Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street For information, call (212) 642-0142 The [...]
Packaged
Packaged Photographs by Jessica Silver On view through mid-December 2009 Reception: Thursday, October 29, 5-6 p.m. Allen Gallery, 2nd floor, Allen Building, West Campus, Duke University Hosted by Provost Peter Lange Seeking out places in Durham where people shop on a daily basis, Jessica Silver takes her camera into spaces we know but seldom look [...]
“Driftless: Stories From Iowa” On Mediastorm
See CDS/Honickman First Book Prize In Photography Winner Danny Wilcox Frazier’s Multimedia Driftless: Stories From Iowa Featured On Mediastorm And Reviewed In Wired Magazine More about Driftless: Stories from Iowa, winner of the third biennial Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize
Continuing Education Presentations and Graduation
Continuing Education Presentations and Graduation May 15, 2009 Lisa Marie Albert, Jennifer Carpenter, Jamara Knight, Margaret Morales, Jean Parker, Marcia Sutherland, Anne Weber Continuing Education students Jennifer Carpenter and Lisa Albert interviewed on WUNC’s “The State of Things” on May 15
LTP Opening at Through This Lens
photographs from the opening reception at through this lens Photographs by Elena Rue
Benefit Photo Auction For Student Action With Farmworkers
Benefit Photo Auction For Student Action With Farmworkers May 7, 2009 | 6:00–8:30 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies 1317 W. Pettigrew Street Durham, NC 27705 Light refreshments and wine will be served $5 at the door gets you a full catalogue and a chance to bid Pay with cash, check, or major credit card
Victory at Moncure Plywood: Personal Histories of Racial Injustice and Labor Relations in The South
Public Presentation April 29th, 6:30 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Undergraduate students in the CDS class, “Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South,” will present the story of the recent strike at the Moncure, North Carolina, plywood factory — as told by the workers themselves. Nearly 120 [...]
Literacy Through Photography: An Exhibit of Pictures and Writing
Literacy Through Photography: An Exhibit of Pictures and Writing Through This Lens 303 E. Chapel Hill Street, Durham, NC On Display April 28–May 2, 2009
The Atlantic Forest: Paraguay’s Disappearing Ecological Treasure
The Atlantic Forest: Paraguay’s Disappearing Ecological Treasure Photographs By Feini (Sylvia) Qu Reception: April 10, 5–7 p.m. April 10–August 9, 2009 Porch and University Gallery “Feini (Sylvia) Qu’s photographs from Paraguay are infused with her scholarship and engagement in zoology and habitat protection, and they reveal a complex layering of her interests in biodiversity, conservation, [...]
We’re One House: Large Format Photography
We’re One House: Large Format Photography On Exhibit at CDS January 25–March 22, 2009 We’re One House: Large Format Photography is an exhibition of large format photographs made by undergraduate students in a Fall 2008 class at the Center for Documentary Studies taught by Lisa Satterwhite. For more information about this exhibition, please see the [...]
