The Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize

The Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize is sponsored by Duke University, Center for Documentary Studies. Awarded annually to a collaborative team consisting of a writer and photographer who are in the formative or fieldwork stage of a documentary project.

Mid-Atlantic Midwest Northeast Northwest South Central Southeast Southwest West « Back to Calls for Entry Dorothea LangePaul Taylor Prize Center for Documentary Studies at Duke / Deadline: 05/07/14 $10,000 award from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, supports documentary artists, working alone or in teams, who are involved in extended, on-going fieldwork projects that rely on and exploit the interplay of words and images.

To learn more, go to documentarystudies. duke. edu/awards.

Single documentary artists or collaborative teams working with text/audio/photographs/video/graphic novel format may apply. Collaborative teams should enter under only one person's name. Please make clear in your project description and statement how your collaboration works, how you've approached the project together.

Also include information about how the pieces in the portfolio you've uploaded were created together and/or separately. There are no restrictions on the age and nationality of applicants. Individuals currently associated with the Center for Documentary Studies are not eligible for the prize.

Applicants may submit a portfolio of any combination of the below, for a maximum of 20 uploads: Up to 19 images (photographs/graphics + text) in digital format from an ongoing project (jpg/pdf). Please label images with captions, to include title, year, format. 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/Vimeo. 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 alexad@duke. edu before sending. 10- to 15-page piece of double-spaced writing (edited oral history, descriptive narrative, poetry) from an ongoing project in pdf format.

Please include name, address, telephone number, and email address on the first page. 1-page project description (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 sending in work from a project previously submitted to the Lange-Taylor Prize, please include information about how your project has developed since you last entered, and in what ways the samples have been revised/refined.

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 (pdf) that addresses the use and relationship of words and images in your work.

If your project combines audio recordings, text, photographs, and video, for instance, please submit a sample of each and address how these elements "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 fulfilling the goals of your documentary project? 1-page biography or C.

V. for each project partner (pdf) The winner receives $10,000, a solo exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies, and inclusion in the Archive of Documentary Arts at Rubenstein Library, Duke University. All entries should have one thing in common: evidence that they were created with reliance on documentary methods-research and interviews-and immersive, long-term fieldwork.

We are interested in work that directs its gaze outward, that curiously engages with the world, and that is, as former CDS director Tom Rankin describes, "derived from an in-depth understanding of place, history, and the current situation, in concert with a personal relationship to the proposed work."

The Lange-Taylor Prize is intended for the advancement of an ongoing project that fully exploits, in the tradition of Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor's important work, the relationship of words and images in the powerful, persuasive representation of a subject. The focus is on the strength, breadth, and nuance of the work as an extended narrative and meditation.

The judging is based only on submitted work as well as the project description and statement. Please review your materials to be sure that you've submitted the best representation of your project-including a sample of different types of media, as applicable-and your effective use of words and images. W: https://documentarystudies.

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