Undrabörn / Extraordinary Child: Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark

Documented: Stories from Both Sides of the Border

We Cheat Each Other

Southern Circuit 2009–2010 Tour of Independent Filmmakers

Fresh Docs: Work in Progress

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Spring/Summer 2010 continuing education courses, including institutes, will be posted and open for registration beginning November 30, 2009

Register now for fall 2009 continuing education classes at CDS

Spring 2010 undergraduate courses



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Submit to the 13th annual Full Frame Documentary Festival

Become a Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow. Applications are due January 13, 2010.

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The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965



The Jazz Loft Project selected as Pick of the Week by Publishers Weekly, September 21, 2009

Featured in the fall 2009 issue of the Paris Review


The Bathers: Photographs by Jennette Williams



Winner of the fourth biennial Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize

"The Art of Farming: A Public Symposium," with a keynote address by Verlyn Klinkenborg, December 4-5

Jazz Loft Project radio series on WYNC

The Jazz Loft Project was featured on the Today show! Sam Stephenson was interviewed by Ann Curry on Friday, Nov. 13. Visit the Today show's website to watch the segment.

Spring/Summer 2010 continuing education courses, including institutes, will be posted and open for registration beginning November 30, 2009

The Bathers: Photographs by Jennette Williams featured in the November 2009 podcast from Daylight magazine and on multimediamuse.org

Video shorts from the 2009 video institute now on-line

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is now accepting submissions for the 13th annual festival, to be held April 8-11, 2010, in Durham, North Carolina. Regular deadline is October 15; late deadline is November 30.

Become a Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow. Applications are due January 13, 2010.

Lange-Taylor Prize applications now available. Deadline is January 31, 2010.

CDS is part of a project to assist the Maasai community of Laikipia in documenting their own culture

Two new exhibitions now at CDS: We Cheat Each Other and Documented: Stories from Both Sides of the Border

PDN magazine article details winning proposals by Lange - Taylor recipients from recent years

Mike Seeger remembered

Father-son team enrolls in the 2009 audio institute together



Now available on DVD: The Rough South of Larry Brown, written and directed by Gary Hawkins

Nuestras Historias, Nuestros Sueños/Our Stories, Our Dreams exhibition travels to Charlotte, Asheville, Chapel Hill, and Greensboro