CDS Documentary Essay Prize
CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
CDS Filmmaker Award
Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize
John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards
Daylight/CDS Photo Awards
CDS Documentary Essay Prize
The Center for Documentary Studies is launching a new prize in fall 2012, the CDS Documentary Essay Prize. These awards will honor the best in documentary photography and literary nonfiction in alternating years: one year, photo; one year, writing. The focus will be on current or recently completed work (within the last two years) from a long-term project-fifteen images; fifteen to twenty pages of writing. The first prize competition will be for writing. The winner will receive $3,000 and take part in CDS's Documentary Writer Speaker Series.
Guidelines available in July
Submissions accepted from November 2012 to January 2013
CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
The Center for Documentary Studies and the Honickman Foundation, based in Philadelphia, co-sponsor this prestigious biennial prize. The only prize of its kind, the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize competition is open to American and Canadian citizens of any age, who have yet to publish a book-length work of their photographs. Winners are awarded a grant of $3,000, publication of a book, and inclusion in a website devoted to presenting the work of the prizewinners. The winner will also receive a solo exhibit at the Center for Documentary Studies.
Submissions accepted June 15 to September 15, 2012
Winner announced in January 2013
View the website for the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
CDS
Filmmaker Award
This $7,500 prize recognizes documentary films that combine originality and creativity with firsthand experience in examining central issues of contemporary life and culture. In keeping with the CDS mission, the award was created to honor and support documentary artists whose works are potential catalysts for education and change. The award winners are selected from among films in competition at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, held each spring in Durham, North Carolina.
Dorothea
Lange–Paul Taylor Prize
The Center for Documentary Studies is proud to re-launch the Lange-Taylor Prize, which supports documentary artists who are involved in extended, on-going fieldwork projects that rely on and exploit, in intriguing and effective ways, the interplay of words and images in the creation and presentation of their work. The winner will receive $10,000, a solo exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies, and inclusion in the Archive of Documentary Arts at Rubenstein Library, Duke University.
Guidelines available in late August 2012
Submissions accepted in January and February 2013
John
Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards
These awards, of up to $2,000, are available to undergraduates at four local universities (Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University, and North Carolina State University) to help them conduct summer-long documentary fieldwork projects.
Guidelines available in September 2012
Submissions accepted month of February 2013
Deadline March 1, 2013
Daylight/CDS Photo Awards
Daylight Magazine and the Center for Documentary Studies cosponsored an international competition, the Daylight/CDS Photo Awards, in 2010 and 2011 to honor and promote both emerging and established photographers in two prize categories—a Project Prize and a Work-in-Process Prize.
Daylight Magazine will be the sole sponsor of the 2012 competition. Alexa Dilworth, CDS’s publishing and awards director, will be a guest judge for the awards. Please visit Daylight’s website for more information.
banner image:
Prairie fire near Cassoday, Kansas,
1990. From On Fire by
Larry Schwarm, winner of the inaugural Center for Documentary Studies
/ Honickman First Book Prize in Photography.
View images from
the book On Fire by Larry
Schwarm
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