Prizewinners
2021 Lange-Taylor Prize: V Haddad and Sam Richardson, Self Portrait Service
Wednesday, October 20, 2021V Haddad and Sam Richardson Win 2021 Lange-Taylor Prize Honorable Mention Awarded to Brian Garbrecht and riel Sturchio Sam Richardson, photograph by Tyler Oyer. V Haddad, photograph by Adam Gundersheimer. The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University has awarded the twenty-ninth Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to American artists and educators V Haddad and Sam...
2020 Lange-Taylor Prize: Tarrah Krajnak, "El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan"
Wednesday, October 14, 2020Tarrah Krajnak Wins 2020 Lange-Taylor Prize Honorable Mention Awarded to Philippe Calia and Sunil Thakkar The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the twenty-eighth Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to Peruvian-born American artist and documentarian Tarrah Krajnak. The $10,000 prize supports the advancement of an ongoing fieldwork project that fully exploits the...
2019 Lange–Taylor Prize: Chinen Aimi, "Finding Ryukyu"
Tuesday, September 17, 2019Chinen Aimi Wins 2019 Lange-Taylor Prize Honorable Mentions Awarded to Christopher Kojzar and Lucas Olivet and Lauren Haddad-Olivet The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the twenty-seventh Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to Japanese American artist and documentarian Chinen Aimi. The $10,000 prize supports the advancement of an ongoing fieldwork project that...
2018 Lange–Taylor Prize: Daniel Ramos, "The Land of Illustrious Men"
Monday, September 17, 2018The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the twenty-sixth Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to American photographer Daniel Ramos. The $10,000 prize supports the advancement of an ongoing fieldwork project that fully exploits the relationship of words and images in the powerful, persuasive representation of a subject. Ramos’s winning proposal, “The Land of Illustrious...
2017 Lange-Taylor Prize: Katherine Yungmee Kim, “Severance”
Wednesday, September 20, 2017Katherine Yungmee Kim Honorable Mention Awarded to Marco Panzetti The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the twenty-fifth Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to American writer and journalist Katherine Yungmee Kim. Her winning proposal, Severance is a visual “novel” that incorporates text and archival and family photographs to explore a personal and political...
2016 Lange–Taylor Prize: Steven M. Cozart, "The Pass/Fail Series"
Friday, October 14, 2016Honorable Mentions Awarded to Carlotta Cardana and Danielle SeeWalker And to Phyllis Dooney and Jardine Libaire The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the twenty-fourth Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to American artist, illustrator, and documentarian Steven M. Cozart. His winning proposal, The Pass/Fail Series, primarily explores colorism within the African...
2015 Lange–Taylor Prize: Michel Huneault "Post Mégantic"
Sunday, November 1, 2015Honorable Mention Awarded to Alice Leora Briggs and Julián Cardona Special Recognition Awarded to Serge J-F. Levy The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the twenty-third Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to Canadian documentary photographer Michel Huneault for Post Mégantic, his project on a small town in Quebec that was the site of Canada’s deadliest train disaster...
2014 Lange–Taylor Prize: Jon Lowenstein, "South Side"
Saturday, November 1, 2014Special Recognition Awarded to Dragana Jurisic The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the twenty-second Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to American photographer, filmmaker, and writer Jon Lowenstein. The $10,000 award is given to encourage documentary work in the tradition of acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor, and...
2013 Lange–Taylor Prize: Jen Kinney, "City Under One Roof"
Friday, November 1, 2013Special Recognition awarded to Bianca Giaever The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the twenty-first Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize to American photographer and writer Jen Kinney. The $10,000 award is given to encourage collaboration in documentary work in the tradition of acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. Lange...
2009 Lange-Taylor Prize: Teru Kuwayama and Christian Parenti, "Unnatural Borders, Open Wounds: The Human Landscape of Pakistan"
Monday, November 1, 2010The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has awarded the nineteenth Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize to photographer Teru Kuwayama and writer Christian Parenti, both Americans. The $20,000 award is given to encourage collaboration in documentary work in the tradition of acclaimed American photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. Lange and Taylor worked...