Children and the Experience of Illness: 2008 Class Projects
Duke University Hospital–North, First Floor Exhibit Hall
April 25–May 30, 2008

Opening Reception: Friday, April 25, 4:30–5:30 p.m.






Literacy Through Photography: An Exhibit of Pictures and Writing
Emily Krzyzewski Center, 904 W. Chapel Hill Street, Durham
On display through May 28, 2008

Opening Reception: April 28, 6–8 p.m.

Presented by the Literacy Through Photography program at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in partnership with Club Boulevard Elementary School, Durham, North Carolina

The Literacy Through Photography (LTP) program challenges children to explore their world as they photograph scenes from their lives and use their images as catalysts for verbal and written expression. The scenes are framed around four thematic explorations: self-portrait, community, family, and dreams. LTP promotes an expansive use of photography across different curricula and disciplines, building on the information that children naturally possess and connecting them with broader perspectives and ways of communicating. Students furthermore gain new ways of viewing themselves and their communities.

LTP was launched in 1990 by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, working in collaboration with the Durham Public Schools. As part of the program, LTP staff members teach a multidisciplinary undergraduate course that includes a semester-long internship in the Durham Public Schools. During the spring of 2008 ten Duke students, along with six teachers at Club Boulevard Elementary School, carried out classroom-based LTP projects. More than 140 third- through fifth-graders participated. On display in this exhibition are their self-portraits, their community photographs, and their writings.

Participating Durham Teachers: Denise Baynham, Lisa Lord, Jennifer Medley, Stephen Mullaney, Erin Pattishall, Jennifer Triplehorn

Participating Duke Students: Shari Baker, Liz Brady, Anna Cassell, Teresa Cho, Priya Khatri, Jen Kozin, Lindsay Kunkle, Kaitlin Rogers, Michael Wood, Kathryn Wooten

MORE ABOUT LTP: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/ltp/
MORE ABOUT EMILY K CENTER: http://www.emilyk.org/
MORE ABOUT CDS: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/

25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers
Gulf and Western Gallery
Tisch School of the Arts at NYU
721 Broadway
New York, New York 10003

Exhibition Opening and Reception: May 29, 6–8 p.m.

Book Launch and Signing: May 22, 6–8 p.m. Held at powerHouse Books, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. With a conversation between Sylvia Plachy and the 25 Under 25 Photographers.

Pai, Estou Te Esperando / Father, I Am Waiting for You
Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy Building (lobby)
West Campus, Duke University
February 13–July 31, 2008

Exhibition Opening: February 12, 2008, 5–6 p.m.

Oh Freedom Over Me
The Bay County Public Library, Panama City, Florida
October 1–November 15, 2008





The Palmer Memorial Institute
The Bay County Public Library, Panama City, Florida
January 30–March 13, 2009





Meet Me at Lyon Park: Snapshots of Our History
Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park, Durham, North Carolina
Opened August 19, 2006





Fieldwork: Unearthing Stories of North Carolina Agriculture
The Marketplace, East Campus, Duke University
Opened August, 2006






Remembering Tillery: Our Community, Our Own Land
History House, Tillery Community Center, 321 Community Center Road (off Highway 561 East or West), Tillery, North Carolina
Opened April 30, 2005






Towards a Promised Land
An installation made collaboratively with asylum seekers and other migratory families
Margate, England
July 2005–July 2006

Towards a Promised Land involves a diverse range of young people who have arrived on the Isle of Thanet from different parts of England and beyond. Working with Wendy Ewald, the children learn, through photography, to explore and understand their worlds and express their experiences of relocation and the search for a better life. Ewald has taken black-and-white portraits of the children and the possessions they have brought with them, evocative of the homes and lives they have left behind, whether in Belarussia, Belfast, Manchester, or the Congo. The portraits will be enlarged and displayed as banners in locations around Margate from July 2005 to July 2006. 

A book resulting from the exhibition, Towards a Promised Land, will be published by Steidl Verlag in December 2006.


PODCAST

Listen to the sound pieces that accompany the exhibition, in which children perform their stories of migration to Margate.

01—Towards a Promised Land (introduction)

02—The Dreamland Tower

03—Dreamland Welcomes You sign (goods entrance only)

04—Hall by the Sea Road–cinema

05—Hall by the Sea Road–Punch & Judy pub

06—Kingfisher Fish & Chip Shop

07—Back of Escape Club

08—Margate Library

09—2, Thanet Road

10—Margate Sea Wall, nearest the pier (single banner)

11—Margate Sea Wall, by the Lido

12—Margate Sea Wall (single banner)

13—Margate Sea Wall

14—Margate Sea Wall, on the beach







banner image:

Partial view of the Lyndhurst Gallery, one of four exhibition spaces at CDS. Photograph by Christopher Sims.


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