Literacy Through Photography —Arusha, Tanzania

Shared Origins: An Adoptive Family's Journey Back to Ethiopia

Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers

Fresh Docs: Work in Progress

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Fall 2010 undergraduate courses announced

Undergraduate course "Intro to Photography" taught by Ava Johnson offered Summer Session I and II

Fall 2010 continuing education courses



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Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound



Reality Radio: Book Event in St. Paul, Minnesota on July 13

John Biewen with contributor Stephen Smith



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

2010 Lange-Taylor Prize winners: Tiana Markova-Gold and Sarah Dohrmann

Watch students projects from the 2010 Video Institute

Announcing the winners of the 2010 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards

Fall 2010 continuing education courses now open for registration

CDS undergraduate instructor Kelly Alexander recognized for her teaching excellence

Full Frame's free Movies on the Lawn film series: August 6

Student Action with Farmworkers End of Summer Celebration on August 6

Jazz Loft Project exhibition in Chicago

William Eggleston to judge CDS / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography (submissions accepted June 15 to September 8)

Kevin Tolson wins the 2010 Julia Harper Day Award

Listen to CDS teacher and gospel singer Mary Williams on WUNC's "The Story"

Reality Radio audio podcast from the Third Coast Filmless Festival

Paul Kwilecki remembered

"Where We Live" radio broadcast panel discussion with Reality Radio editor John Biewen and contributors Jay Allison and Karen Michel

Robin Hessman (My Perestroika) wins 2010 CDS Filmmaker Award

CDS instructor Gary Hawkins cited by Variety as a "leader in learning"

Video: "My Rise and Fall: Roger Hodge on the State of Magazines"

Fall 2010 undergraduate courses announced

The re-designed Document has launched and is going quarterly

"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

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

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



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