Deadline set for prestigious documentary photography award
The Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor documentary award, which comes with a $20,000 cash prize, is now calling for entries
Organised by the Center for Documentary studies at Duke University, the competition, now in its 20th year, was created to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor.
Lange and Taylor’s book An American Exodus, published in 1941, explores human experience through text and images and became a seminal work in documentary studies.
The prize aims to fund a collaboration project in its early stages to support ‘the documentary process in which writers and photographers work together to record the human story.’
Winners of the Lange-Taylor award will also have their work featured in Document, a periodical published by the Center for Documentary Studies, as well as in a gallery on the Center’s website.
Last year’s award was scooped up photographer Teru Kuwayama and writer Christian Parenti for their joint work Unnatural Borders, Open Wounds: The Human Landscape of Pakistan, a documentary project about Pakistan’s refugee crisis.
Entries to the competition must be collaborations between a writer and a photographer, submitted under one cover during the month of January 2010 only. The deadline is 31 January.
For more information and to view past winners, visit www-cds.aas.duke.edu.
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