Olive Branch: Twenty-five Years in the Life of Mark Fisher and Cedric Chatterley

Reciprocity: Cedric Chatterley's Handmade Cameras

Walls That Speak

Southern Circuit 2009–2010 Tour of Independent Filmmakers

Fresh Docs: Work in Progress

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Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound





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

William Eggleston to judge 2010 CDS / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography

The Jazz Loft Project exhibition on view at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center February 17–May 22

Free photography workshop with Ernesto Bazan: applications due February 10

Something More Out of Life: Photographs by Gretchen Ferber Reception and Presentations February 18 at the Sanford School of Public Policy, West Campus, Duke University

Ernesto Bazan artist talk about his photography work in Cuba at CDS on February 17

Panel discussion "A Measure of Remorse" with video artist Hong-An Truong and Duke professors Fred Moten and Nayoung Aimee Kwon at CDS on February 18

Attention Duke undergraduates: apply to become a Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Fellow! Deadline to apply is at noon on February 19.

"Photographing in the Key of C" video interview with exhibiting artist Cedric Chatterley

Brother Towns / Pueblos Hermanos film, a project of CDS

"Allan Gurganus on the American South," recorded in November 2009, now available online

CDS co-sponsors 2010 Ethics Film Series on "Control and Resistance"

Opening reception for Still Point of the Turning World: Photographs by Frank Hunter on February 24 in the Allen Gallery on Duke's west campus

Special CDS course opportunity: "The Documentary Theater Project" with Mike Wiley. Register now using our on-line system.

There are over 250 audio and video documentaries on the CDS iTunes U site. Just added: the fall 2009 undergraduate projects from John Biewen's "Introduction to Audio Documentary" course

The Bathers: Photographs by Jennette Williams featured on the websites for the New Yorker and PDN magazines

2010 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival passes now on sale

Registration now open for Spring/Summer 2010 continuing education courses, including institutes

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

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

Mike Seeger remembered



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