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Youth Document Durham: The Book
A Five-Year Retrospective, 2000–2004

Edited by Hong-An Truong
With photographs and essays by Youth Document Durham participants

"Young people of all sorts have often been the subject of documentary photography. In Durham, North Carolina, as perhaps in many places, youth have also often been the subject of intense debate among local leaders and politicians, discussions which include the high school drop-out rate, perceived youth gang issues and teen violence, the rising teen pregnancy rate, and the growing numbers of Spanish-language learners. Youth Document Durham, a program at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, grew out of a simple idea. We wanted to put cameras and audio recorders in the hands of a group of racially and culturally diverse young people so that they could represent their own lives through words and pictures to each other and to the community."—Hong-An Truong

"I take pictures at home and bring them back to my family, and they ask me, 'Where'd you get that picture from?' and I say, 'I took it when you weren't paying attention,' and they say, 'I'm gonna rip that picture up!' I would never let them, because these pictures show my real life. My pictures show the important people in my life, and the way that I see my life-sad, fun, awful, and happy all at the same time."—LaShauna Rogers

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Putting Documentary Work to Work: A Guide for Communities, Artists, and Activists

Putting Documentary Work to Work is a step-by-step guide designed to help community organizations develop and conduct their own documentary projects using a camera and tape recorder. This booklet outlines the basic principals of developing projects, writing budgets, making photographs, and conducting interviews and provides creative ideas about how the results of documentary work can be put into action. Putting Documentary Work to Work also shows, through real-life examples, how documentary work at the local level can provoke important community discussion and lead to collaborative problem solving.

Editions in English (SOLD OUT) and Spanish. How to order Spanish edition.

Both the English and Spanish editions are available on-line in pdf format at www.indivisible.org under "Resources" memo.







Document

Document is a biannual publication that features some of the best documentary work supported and produced by the Center for Documentary Studies. "As with any true center, CDS serves as a meeting ground, a central gathering point for the exchange of ideas on the role of documentary studies in our collective community," Tom Rankin, director of the Center for Documentary Studies, wrote in the inaugural issue. "Document, we hope, will become a visible record and continuation of our regular gatherings, an important ingredient in our ongoing conversation about the work of the Center and also about innovation and ideas in documentary studies."

Each issue of Document includes a range of stories; for example, engaging interviews with photographers and other documentarians working locally, in their own communities, and on projects across the United States and abroad; compelling images and writing by young people documenting what's important in their own lives; excerpts from books and exhibitions produced by CDS; a sampling of documentary film projects from around the world; ideas for creating your own documentary projects; and much more.

Poets & Writers magazine (March/April 2007), in a discussion on the definition of what makes a "literary magazine" had this to say: "Document is, on the one hand, a newsletter—albeit beautifully produced—about the fine work being done at, and funded by, the center. On the other hand, it's a collection of creative essays, poems, and photographs, which sounds a lot like a literary magazine. . . . The last issue included an essay about plainclothes cops in Dneprodzerzhinsk, a city in central Ukraine, by Larry Forlick (who, with photographer Donald Weber, won the CDS's 2006 Lange-Taylor Prize); a poem by Natasha Trethewey who delivered a lecture at CDS last March; and photographs of the Black Panthers in the 1960s by Stephen Shames. No matter what one chooses to call it, Document is a compelling read."

If you would like to receive a sample copy of Document, send your request, along with your name, mailing address, and a check for $7.50 (made payable to the Center for Documentary Studies), to:

Document
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
1317 W. Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 27705


SPECIAL ISSUE



Document (Summer/Fall 2005)
Hand & Eye: Fifteen Years of the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize
104 pages, more than 100 photographs

Send your request, along with your name, mailing address, and a check for $15 (made payable to the Center for Documentary Studies), to:

Document Special Issue
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
1317 W. Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 27705


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One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana

Portraits of Louisiana prisoners with a political and historical background of American prisons, from the winners of the 2000 Lange-Taylor Prize. More.





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