CDS Awards
Photograph by Jennette WilliamsCenter for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography     |     View entire image View entire image
 
About
Events
Courses
Awards
Exhibits
Books
Projects

Learn more about the benefits of becoming a Friend of CDS


First Book Prize Overview

Guidelines

Application Materials

Frequently Asked Questions

Biennial Winners: 2003 | 2005
| 2007 | 2009






Application Materials

Submissions should include, in this order:

Application form Click to download First Book Prize application form (44 kb) [An updated PDF will be posted in November 2009.]

• Entry fee of $40 made payable to CDS / Honickman First Book Prize

• Self-addressed, stamped postcard for notification of receipt of materials

• Forty images submitted digitally on cd, drawn from an ongoing or recently completed project, which represent a coherent body of work suitable for publication. At least twenty of these images must have been made within the last three years (after 2006). Those who submitted work in the last competition must be sure to include at least twenty new images in their application.

Images can originate in any format, but must be submitted digitally on cd. (No e-mail submission of images will be accepted). Images should be in jpeg format, saved at the highest jpeg setting, and sized at 72 dpi with the longest side of the image set at 21 inches. Each jpeg should be titled in this order: photographer's last name, photographer's first name (abbreviated as needed), and image number—for example, doe_john_01.jpg. Color images should be in RGB Color mode. Compact disc and case must be clearly labeled with the photographer's full name.

• Caption list. Please include where and when picture was made.

• One-page artist’s statement (provide context for the forty images, describe larger body of work, including how long project has been in progress, and how the photographs constitute a potential book)

• One-page biography or one-page résumé

• Self-addressed, stamped 9 x 12 envelope for return of materials

Before submitting your application, please review your images to be sure that what you've submitted represents a larger body of work suitable for publication as a book.


All written material should be typed on white 8 1/2 x 11 paper with the photographer’s name at the top of each page. Prints, newspaper clippings, or any other additional material will not be seen by the panel.

Enclose all materials in a 9 x 12 envelope and send to:

CDS / Honickman First Book Prize
Center for Documentary Studies
1317 W. Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 27705

For additional application forms, please send an SASE to the above address.
Please note that on-line application forms must be printed and included with submitted materials; it is not possible to submit applications electronically.




banner image:

Budapest, 2002


From The Bathers by Jennette Williams, winner of the fourth biennial Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography



top



 
Home | About | Events | Courses | Awards | Exhibits | Books | Projects | Donate | Duke University
Contact Us | Sign Up for E-mail Newsletter | Press Center | Site Map | Terms of Use | CDS Web Site Trouble-Shooting Guide

All photographs, texts, videos, and other artwork appearing on this Web site are copyright by the artist.