NPR Highlights Photographs from Guantanamo Bay by CDS Instructor Christopher Sims

NPR’s popular photography blog, “The Picture Show,” recently featured five photographers included in the Oxford American magazine’s “Visual South Issue,” which identified the “most talented and thrilling up-and-coming artists in the South.” The first installment of NPR’s series, “Unseen Scenes of Guantanamo,” focused on Center for Documentary Studies instructor Christopher Sims’s photography project at the remote [...]
New CDS Weekend Class for Photographers Interested in Stories of Social Significance, with Instructor Misha Friedman, March 10–11

Photographer Misha Friedman—whose series Donbass Romanticism, documenting the health effects of coal mines and factories in the Ukraine, was recently featured on the New Yorker’s Photo Booth blog—will lead a new CDS continuing education class intended for photographers interested in working on stories of social significance. Participants in the class, Successful Collaboration with NGOs, will look into how the nonprofit [...]

