2010 CDS / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
2008 CDS / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
2006 CDS / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
2004 CDS / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
2002 CDS / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
In 2001, The Honickman Foundation partnered with The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University to create a biennial publishing award — The Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography — which offers publication of a book of photography, a $3,000 award and inclusion in a web site devoted to presenting the work of the prize winners.
The only competition of its kind, The Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize competition is open to American photographers of any age who have never published a book-length work and who use their cameras for creative exploration, whether it be of places, people, or communities; of the natural or social world; of beauty at large or the lack of it; of objective or subjective realities.
The prize honors work that is visually compelling, that bears witness, and that has integrity of purpose. Judging is based on submitted images carefully selected by the photographer to demonstrate a coherent body of work with the potential for publication. Submitted work must be from an on ongoing or completed project of the past three years.
As it relates to photography, The Honickman Foundation and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University are partners with similar goals. CDS connects the arts and humanities to documentary fieldwork, drawing upon photography, filmmaking, oral history, examination of contemporary society, the recognition of collaboration as central documentary work, and the presentation of experiences that heighten our historical and culture awareness.
It is the aim of The Honickman Foundation to stimulate America's ever-growing and energetic photo-collecting universe into the full realization of photography's rich accomplishment and potential, both as an art form and as a tool for social change.
The next book and winner will be published in 2011.
Visit The Center for Documentary Studies website and view the guidelines for the First Book Prize in Photography.