Photojournalist Carolyn Drake Wins Lange-Taylor Prize

 

DURHAM, NC (May 28, 2008) – Photographer Carolyn Drake and writer Ilan Greenberg have won the 18th annual Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

The $20,000 award is given yearly to encourage collaboration in documentary work in the tradition of Lange and social scientist and writer Paul Taylor. Lange and Taylor worked for many years on documentary projects, including American Exodus (1941).

Drake and Greenberg's project, "Becoming Chinese: Uighurs in Cultural Transition," proposes to look at the ways Uighurs (who are Muslims) find ways to live under Chinese rule, a government with strict anti-Uighur policies. Drake and Greenberg say that about 10 million Uighurs live in China, with another 300,000 in neighboring Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

A freelance photojournalist, Drake is now based in Istanbul. She was a Fulbright Fellow in the Ukraine, and has won multiple awards from NPPA, World Press Photo, and POYi.

Greenberg is a journalist based in New York, and for two years he was the Central Asia correspondent for The New York Times.

The deadline to apply for the next Lange-Taylor competition is January 31, 2009. More information is available from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

 

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