Natalie Minik 2013-2014
Natalie Minik graduated from Duke University with an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts in 2013. Her commitment to documentary practice started nine years ago at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies where she studied documentary writing. Since her introduction to the field, she has branched out into photography, moving image and multimedia approaches to […]
Jennifer Carpenter, a 2010-2011 Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow from the Center for Documentary Studies, spent 10 months working with the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC) in Boston, MA. For one of her documentary projects, Jennifer chose to focus on a community of retirees who met twice a week for an afternoon of ballroom dance. Generation Dance is a story about […]
A Different Way of Seeing
By Chris Fowler Spring. Brighter light and longer days are here. The rigorously contemplative winter is making way for an active and fruitful vernal season. I am very pleased to report that the documentary photography class that I taught at The Eliot School in collaboration with UFORGE Gallery was a great success. The four-week class […]
Photos on the Dudley Greenhouse
Chris Fowler’s photos for The Food Project are now mounted on the side of the Dudley Greenhouse in Roxbury, MA.
Repetition, Ritual, and Reassurance
By Indaia Whitcombe In the recent months I have begun to understand the functioning of the Boys & Girls Club on a deeper level. The mission of the Boys & Girls Club is to foster positive youth development and how they do this seems pretty clear to anyone who comes through the doors. The club […]
Documentary Reflection: Amanda van Scoyoc
By Amanda van Scoyoc This photograph was taken on April 12, 2008. Damaris was nineteen years old, Andrea was seconds old, and I was twenty-five. I was in the corner of the delivery room trying to be as inconspicuous as I could be with a Hasselblad camera attached to a large tripod. I remember fumbling […]
The Third Season at The Food Project
By Chris Fowler, November 2011 Autumn. Bright greens go yellow, then red, while the days get darker more quickly. Haste is made to harvest the remainder of the heartier crops: collards, kale, carrots, and leeks. Care is taken to prepare for the next season. Garlic cloves are planted by hand and hay makes a blanket […]
Fall in South Boston
By Indaia Whitcombe Coming off the train at the Broadway Station in South Boston, I am greeted by the clamor of large-scale construction- in a fenced lot along the first stretch of sidewalk, men in hard hats and backhoes are working together on the latest redevelopment project here on the lower end. Just yesterday I […]
Chris Fowler Teaching Documentary to Teens
In addition to his work at The Food Project, Chris Fowler is teaching documentary work to teens in Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in Boston. The class is part of a collaboration between The Eliot School and UFORGE Gallery. To read more about his class, visit: http://www.eliotschool.org/classes/documenting-american-communities-space-place
Alphabet Project Exhibit
Jennifer Carpenter, a 2010-2011 Lewis Hine Fellow from the Center for Documentary Studies, spent 10 months working with the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC) in Boston, Massachusetts. Inspired by the Literacy Through Photography program, Jennifer conducted six workshops with children at BCNC to produce community alphabets. Each class produced a 26-photograph series corresponding to the 26 letters of […]
Libby Conn 2006-2007
Though she was born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas, Libby Conn quickly fell in love with her adopted home of North Carolina while studying as an undergraduate at the Center for Documentary Studies. At CDS, Libby was encouraged to explore her new community by undertaking various documentary projects. Working over the course of four years […]
Annie Dlugokecki 2006-2007
Annie Dlugokecki (Duke ’06) is a still photographer with experience in both fine art and documentary photography. Her personal connection with photography, as a means to express ideas and explore personal events, has made her eager to share this craft with other people. Annie was a photography instructor at a local elementary school in conjunction […]