Duke Alums Photograph Cuba
In late January of this year I traveled to Cuba at the invitation of Duke Alumni Travel for a unique educational exchange program. Duke received a special license from the U.S. State Department to promote people-to-people exchange between the U.S. and Cuba, which meant—for me and a lucky group of almost thirty people—a weeklong immersion into [...]
Alex Harris Presents at PhotoNight on the UNC–Chapel Hill Campus, Monday, February 27
Photographer and writer Alex Harris, a CDS founder and professor of the practice of public policy and documentary studies at Duke University, will be this month’s PhotoNight speaker for the UNC–Chapel Hill student chapter of the National Press Photographers Association. PhotoNight events are held around the world, providing an avenue for the enhancement of the [...]
Video Interviews with Photographer Alex Harris
Alex Harris’s photographic work recently opened in a landmark exhibit at the Getty Museum show, A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Evans to Now. Harris’s 18 large scale photographs are featured alongside those of Walker Evans, and two other contemporary photographers. A student of Walker Evans at Yale, Harris is the author of, among other books, [...]
“Eyes on Cuba,” A Conversation with Alex Harris and Ruth Behar at the J. Paul Getty Museum
On Wednesday, May 18, 7 p.m., Alex Harris will participate in “Eyes on Cuba,” a conversation at the Getty Museum with Ruth Behar, professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and author of An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba. They will discuss how their respective projects give voice to Cubans and express [...]
