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Left: Flyer detail from Mother, Me. Right: Flyer detail from More Than a Mentor.
The Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows Program at the Center for Documentary Studies is pleased to invite you to two upcoming exhibitions showcasing the work of the Program’s 2016-2017 Fellows. Both events are free and open to the public.
With a grant of $225,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (CDS) and other Duke partners will build on their multi-year collaboration with the SNCC Legacy Project (SLP) to re-examine the history of voting rights, and its lessons for strengthening American democracy from the ground up.
NOTE: The Documentary Diversity Project was a three-year pilot program that was active 2017–2020. As part of a strategic priority to diversify the documentary field, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (CDS) has launched a three-year pilot program made possible in part by a grant from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust. The goal of the Documentary Diversity Project (DDP) is to build pathways for more people of color to participate in the documentary arts and to become nonfiction storytellers, gatekeepers, and critical consumers; to amplify their achievements; and to promote their work. DDP participants in the three-year pilot phase will include post-MFA Fellows in the Documentary Arts (generally, ages 24–32) as well as Emerging Documentary Artists (ages 18–24).
Kim submitted the winning proposal, Severance, a visual “novel” that incorporates text and archival and family photographs to explore a personal and political history of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the 155-mile-long, four-mile-wide swath of land that divides North Korea and South Korea. The project is an ongoing body of work meant to “share the history and human element of this temporary and tragic geopolitical division and landmark,” Kim writes.
2016-2017 Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow and CDS alumni Lauren Henschel has received funding to continue her fellowship project through 2018. Henschel's Hine Fellow project was a digital photography course at the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, NY which used photography as a medium to understand identity, community and the world around us. The class was taught to 11 South Brooklyn youth and culminated in a book and an exhibition of student photography at Red Hook Labs in late Spring.
Southern writer Clyde Edgerton once wrote that it’s almost impossible “to write about race in America without bombast, outrage, or satire.” How else, he asked, can one “confront a system of structural inequality that has savagely circumscribed lives for generations?” This is true for filmmakers as well. But with her two-part film, CALL:RESPONSE, Katina Parker courageously engaged her audience to face this reality head on, unflinchingly. The Center for Documentary Studies, along with the Duke University Office of the Provost, commissioned the film for “Policing Color: Black, Brown, and Blue”—the Provost Forum on Race, Community, and the Pursuit of Justice held earlier this year in response to the September 2016 killing of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte.
Look for the CDS Book of Theater of War in 2019
The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) is delighted to announce that director of undergraduate education and lecturing fellow Christopher Sims has received a 2017 Graham Foundation Grant to support the publication of a book of photographs, Theater of War: The Pretend Villages of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Center for Documentary Studies is pleased to introduce the 2017-2018 Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows, all of whom will be working with organizations in the New York City area; scroll down for more information on Roxanne Campbell, Jonna McKone, Lauren Mueller, and Rahi Hasan.
What can the immediate past teach us about voting rights, self-determination, and democracy today? A new website created by the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University explores how the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)—the only youth-led national civil rights group—organized a grassroots movement in the 1960s that empowered Black communities and transformed the nation. Told from the perspectives of the activists themselves, the SNCC Digital Gateway: Learn from the Past, Organize for the Future, Make Democracy Work (snccdigital.org) highlights SNCC’s thinking and work building democracy from the ground up, making those experiences and strategies accessible to activists, educators, and engaged citizens today.
The website is a product of a groundbreaking partnership among veteran civil rights activists of the SNCC Legacy Project, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, Duke University Libraries, and civil rights scholars.
