Applicants upload portfolio and submit payment online to http://dukearts.slideroom.com from February 1 to May 7, 2013. The online system provides a video tutorial as well as step-by-step instructions on how to register and submit your photographs/media, written materials, and payment. We will only accept entries submitted through SlideRoom.
Applicants may submit a portfolio of any combination of the below, for a maximum of 20 uploads:
Up to 20 images—photographs/graphics + text—in digital format (jpeg/jpg) from an ongoing project. Please label scans with title, year, format.
and/or
Up to 10 minutes total of time-based media (whether audio, narrated slide show, video) (mp3/mp4/mov) from an ongoing project. Please label uploads with title, year, format. SlideRoom can also accept links to YouTube videos.
Note: Digital materials (CDs or DVDs) and analog formats (VHS, 16mm, etc.) may be accepted by mail if necessary. Please send a request to Alexa Dilworth at before sending.
and/or
10- to 15-page piece of double-spaced writing (whether edited oral history, descriptive narrative, and poetry from an ongoing project in doc/docx or pdf format). Please include name, address, telephone number, and email address on the first page.
AND
Applicants must submit:
1-page project description (doc/docx or pdf). Please provide context for the material you are submitting—the nature, duration, and future of the project, where and when the submitted work was made, and your ultimate intentions for the work. How will winning the Lange-Taylor Prize further your work on this project?
If you are submitting work that has been previously published, please include information about where and when it appeared, and how the material as submitted for this competition is different (or not).
Note: Applicants may include URLs where additional related work may be viewed.
1-page statement (doc/docx or pdf) that addresses the use of words and images in your work. Please describe how you think about the relationship of text and/or sound to visual media in the materials you have submitted. How do you “rely on and exploit, in intriguing and effective ways, the interplay of words and images in the creation and presentation” of your work? How is this interplay advantageous in the representation of your documentary project?
1-page biography or C.V. (doc/docx or pdf)
$65 entry fee
Eligibility
The Lange-Taylor Prize is open to documentary artists of any age and nationality who are involved in extended, ongoing fieldwork projects that rely on and exploit, in intriguing and effective ways, the interplay of words and images in the creation and presentation of their work. Single artists as well as collaborative teams are eligible.
Deadline
Application materials will be accepted from February 1 to May 7, 2013. Entries must be submitted no later than May 7, 2013. (See note on multiple entries under FAQ’s.)
Additional Information
By entering the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize, you agree that the Center for Documentary Studies is permitted to receive your registration data. Participants agree that personal data including, but not limited to, name, mailing address, phone number, and email address may be collected, processed, stored and otherwise used for the purposes of conducting and administering the competition.
The Lange-Taylor Prize reserves the right to not consider entries that fail to meet the submission requirements listed under How to Enter.
Staff and faculty of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University are not eligible to enter the competition.
The $10,000 award will be reported to the winner on a 1099-Miscellaneous tax form. It is the responsibility of the winners to file their tax liability.
