Guidelines

This year, the Center for Documentary Studies is proud to re-launch the Lange-Taylor Prize, which supports documentary artists who are involved in extended, ongoing 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 updated deadlines will require that an artist’s fieldwork has already started, and will expand the idea of “writing” to allow words to be represented by audio (alone, in sound slides, in video). In addition, the new prize guidelines will no longer stipulate that a writer and a photographer, i.e., two people or more, collaborate on a project; single artists working with text/audio/video may apply, though collaborative teams will still be eligible.

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

GALLERY



Hand & Eye: Fifteen Years of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize: view photographs and writing from ten past prizewinning projects





Photograph by Tiana Markova-Gold, prizewinner in 2010.


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