DOROTHEA LANGE-PAUL TAYLOR PRIZE

DOROTHEA LANGE-PAUL TAYLOR PRIZE
Deadline: January 31, 2009

Overview
The year 2009 marks the nineteenth anniversary of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor documentary prize, a $20,000 award given annually by the Center for Documentary Studies. First announced a year after the Center's founding at Duke University, the prize was created to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of the acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. In 1941 Lange and Taylor published An American Exodus, a book that renders human experience eloquently in text and images and remains a seminal work in documentary studies. The Lange-Taylor Prize honors their important collaborative work.

The Lange-Taylor Prize is offered to a writer and a photographer in the early stages of a documentary project. By encouraging such collaborative efforts, the Center for Documentary Studies supports the documentary process in which writers and photographers work together to record the human story.

More Information
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/l-t/

Guidelines

Description
The prize is intended to fund collaborative work by a writer and a photographer in the formative or fieldwork stages of a documentary project. Submissions on any subject are welcome. Winners of the Lange-Taylor competition will have their work featured in Document, a periodical published by the Center for Documentary Studies, as well as in a virtual gallery on the CDS Web site. The amount of the award is $20,000.

Eligibility
Collaboration is essential to the nature of the work this award supports; therefore, individual submissions will not be considered. More than two people may apply as long as one of the collaborators is a writer and one is a photographer working with black-and-white or color still photography. Individuals currently associated with the Center for Documentary Studies are not eligible for the prize.

Deadline
All required materials must be submitted under one cover during the month of January and postmarked no later than January 31, 2009.

Selection and Notification
Each year a judging panel, including a prominent photographer and an accomplished writer, as well as individuals with experience in a variety of documentary arts, arts management, and publishing, is selected by the director and staff. Winners will be chosen and notified by mid-summer 2009. Public announcement of the winners will be made by the end of the summer. Return of all submissions will be made after the final decision has been reached.

The award will be reported to the winners on a 1099-Miscellaneous tax form. It is the responsiblity of the winners to file their tax liability.

Because of the volume of applications it is not possible for us to be available by telephone for inquiries. Please note that application forms on-line must be printed and submitted. It is not possible to submit applications electronically. If you have questions about the grant or the Center for Documentary Studies, please write to us at:

Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize Committee
Center for Documentary Studies
1317 W. Pettigrew Street
Duke University
Durham, NC 27705