Behind the Story

Intern for a Day

 Elena explains the workings of the 5d mark II McKenzie, a sophomore at Carolina Friends School, shadowed us today. She chose to do her “End of Year Experience” internship on documentary storytelling. She’ll be spending time at The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and with documentary photographers and filmmakers in the area for …

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Literacy through Photography – Tanzania

In 2008 and 2009 I served as the On-The-Ground Coordinator for the Literacy Through Photography (LTP) Tanzania program through Duke Engage. Each summer my colleague Katie Hyde and I took eight students to Arusha, Tanzania for two months where we trained teachers using LTP’s participatory education methodology and taught photography and writing lessons to children in local schools.

Five Farms project – NPR

Five Farms is an audio and photography project produced by Wesley Horner Productions and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and distributed by Public Radio International™. Five Farms puts a personal face on the lives and livelihoods of farmers across the United States. The farming families who are profiled in this project — they live in …

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Guatemala

In preparation for my graduate work, I spent two months in Guatemala studying Spanish and living with two lovely host families in Antigua and Quetzaltenango (Xela). The language immersion I had during this experience improved my ability to work with the North Carolina Latino community on my graduate thesis, Dreams Delayed, a multimedia documentary project …

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