Photographers Dawoud Bey Dawoud Bey, a professor of photography at Columbia College-Chicago, began his first extensive project on the streets of New York City's Harlem in 1975. By the nineties, Bey had become known for his portraits of urban youth made with a 20 x 24 Polaroid camera. These images, and his earlier black-and-white work, have been published, exhibited, and collected extensively and were the subject of a retrospective exhibition and book organized by the Walker Art Center in 1995. Bill Burke Bill Burke is an instructor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. His first documentary commission was with the Kentucky Bicentennial Photo Project, the first of many grants and awards he has received. His books, I Want to Take Picture and Mine Fields, are a combination of artist's book and travelogue. Since the eighties, Burke has photographed extensively in Southeast Asia. His most recent project is a study of French colonial architecture in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Debbie Fleming Caffery Debbie Fleming Caffery began photographing sugarcane workers in her native Louisiana in the early 1970s while studying photography at the Rice University Media Center. Her monograph, Carry Me Home, features a selection of these images and other work from her home region. Caffery has extended her subjects to the cultures of Mexico and Portugal and other American places. A teacher who is renowned for her expressive black-and-white printing, Caffery has work in many major museum collections and has been exhibited internationally. Lucy Capehart Lucy Capehart has worked as a curator since 1981, and is currently a contract curator at the Art Museum of Missoula in Montana. Her large color studies of domestic interiors and the American cultural landscape have been widely exhibited, including solo exhibitions at the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Her work is featured on book and CD covers and has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Architecture, and elsewhere. Lynn Davis New York-based Lynn Davis began her career as a studio photographer of figures and objects. Since completing a series of photographs of icebergs off Greenland in 1986, she has concentrated on ancient monuments, sacred architecture, and natural water subjects around the world. Davis's work is represented in numerous public and private collections and is surveyed in her 1999 book Monument. Her photographs of Africa illustrate Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Wonders of the African World. Terry Evans In her most recent books, The Inhabited Prairie and Disarming the Prairie, noted landscape photographer Terry Evans uses both aerial and ground photography, in black and white and color, to tell the stories of human change engraved on the prairie and the communities that live there. Raised in Kansas, her long involvement with this unique ecology and culture has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Lauren Greenfield The photographs and interviews in Lauren Greenfield's 1997 book Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood established her as a premier interpreter of American youth culture. A native and current resident of Los Angeles, Greenfield is a working photojournalist who has been recognized by many prestigious grants and awards. Her images have appeared in countless magazines and newspapers in the United States and abroad. At present, she is developing a major project on girls in America. Joan Liftin Joan Liftin is director of documentary and photojournalism education at the International Center of Photography in New York City. A freelance photographer, she has developed numerous projects and assignments. Her picture essays have been seen in The New York Times Magazine, Creative Photography, Zoom, and other publications. Currently, she is finishing a color book project on the drive-in movie experience in America. Reagan Louie Reagan Louie has been a professor of photography at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1976. His ten-year project photographing contemporary China, which began when he and his father returned to the village where Louie's father was born, is presented in the book Toward a Truer Life: Photographs of China, 1980-1990. A Guggenheim and Fulbright fellow, Louie has also received the Dorothea Lange—Paul Taylor Prize and the James Phelan Art Award. His next extensive project explores sex, sexuality, and love in Asia. Danny Lyon Also a writer and filmmaker, New York photographer Danny Lyon is well known for his frank and lyric vision. Many of his images have become iconic signs of their time and place, from the civil rights movement to Texas prison life. His landmark book, The Bikeriders, was recently reissued, and a photomontage memoir entitled Knave of Hearts was published in 2000. A retrospective Danny Lyon exhibition and book was organized by the Center for Creative Photography and the Museum Folkwang in 1991. Sylvia Plachy Born in Budapest, Sylvia Plachy emigrated in 1958 and lives in New York, where she is a longtime staff photographer at The Village Voice. Her three books are Unguided Tour, Red Light, and her 1999 monograph, Signs and Relics. A well-established photojournalist with a distinctly personal vision, Plachy has published extensively; her photo credits range from Newsweek to Grand Street to Wired. A Guggenheim fellow, she is represented in many museum collections and exhibitions. Eli Reed Eli Reed, a member of Magnum Photos, has been documenting the black experience since he first began taking photographs. His 1997 book, Black in America, shows the breadth and complexity of this sixteen-year exploration. His other books include Beirut: City of Regrets, War Torn, and Homeless in America. A much sought-after photojournalist, Reed covers national and world events for numerous magazines and organizations, and he has also contributed work to film projects. Reed has received a W. Eugene Smith Grant for Documentary Photography. Interviewers Merle Augustin For the past eight years, journalist Merle Augustin has been writing extensively about Haitian issues in the United States and in Haiti. She is currently writing for the Sun-Sentinel, covering the city of Boynton Beach in Palm Beach County. Augustin is part of a team of reporters working on a year-long series about South Florida and the meaning of community in such a diverse region. Dan Collison Dan Collison, a regular contributor to National Public Radio, is executive director/producer of DC Productions, a not-for-profit organization specializing in radio and video documentaries about people and places overlooked by the mainstream media. His 1998 radio documentary Scenes from a Transplant received a prestigious du Pont—Columbia Award. The film version aired on the HBO/Cinemax Reel Life series. Barry Dornfeld Barry Dornfeld is director and associate professor of the Communications Program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Dornfeld has been working in film and video for twenty years, producing and directing documentaries on a range of topics including the Philadelphia Hmong refugee community, Ghanaian traditional performance in the United States, and an Appalachian Baptist Church. Dornfeld recently completed the book Producing Public Television, Producing Public Culture, an ethnographic study of the public-television documentary. George King Trained as a documentary filmmaker in the United Kingdom, George King relocated to the United States in 1979. He works as a writer/producer of nonfiction projects in theater, film, television, and radio. King's recent work includes Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, the acclaimed radio history of the civil rights movement in five Southern communities, and Goin' to Chicago, a history of the African American "great migrations" to air on PBS in summer 2000. Jack Loeffler Since 1967 Jack Loeffler has recorded traditional cultures throughout the American Southwest, Mexico, Japan, and the Cook Islands. He is the producer/director of Southwest Sound Collage, a radio series nationally distributed by Pacifica Radio; The Spirit of Place, a radio series that addresses the relationship between indigenous and traditional cultures; and scores of other documentary radio programs. Loeffler's latest book is La Musica de los Viejitos: The Hispano Folk Music of the Rio Grande del Norte. Jens Lund Folklorist Jens Lund documents occupational poets in the western United States and Canada, and has been involved in research on the traditions of Northwest timber communities, the folklore of Midwestern rivers, and Denmark's resistance to the Holocaust. His 1985 documentary film, The Pearl Fishers, about freshwater pearl fishing in Indiana, was chosen the “Best Ethnographic Film-The Americas” by the American Anthropological Association. He is the author of Flatheads and Spooneys: Fishing for a Living in the Ohio River Valley. Karen Michel For more than a dozen years, Karen Michel has been an award-winning contributor to National Public Radio. Recognition for Michel's radio work has come from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and American Women in Radio and Television. She currently teaches at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Daniel Rothenberg Daniel Rothenberg is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan and a fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. He has also taught in the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago and in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California-Irvine. His book, With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today, documents the world of migrant farmworkers through the presentation of a diverse array of personal narratives. Jeff Whetstone Jeff Whetstone has been documenting southern communities since he graduated from Duke University in 1990. His latest project is Bringing Something from Home, a documentary book on family dynamics of highly motivated high school students in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is currently attending Yale University working toward an MFA in photography. Joe Wood For the past ten years, Joe Wood has been a prominent voice on contemporary American culture. In 1996 he joined the New Press as an editor of nonfiction books. His essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The Village Voice, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. Joe Wood disappeared on July 8, 1999, while hiking on Mount Rainier. ABOUT THE PROJECT | GALLERY | TRAVELING EXHIBITS | THE BOOK | RESOURCES | HOME © 2000 INDIVISIBLE IS A PROJECT OF THE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES AT DUKE UNIVERSITY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY,THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, AND IS FUNDED BY THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS.