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Ben Crawley is "Mr. Buzz," a beekeeping educator and mentor who draws a distinction between caring, mindful beekeepers and uncommitted "bee havers."

Directed by Rachel Greenblatt and Ryan Stone for the 2013 Documentary Video Institute.

Rise is a relatively new biscuit bakery and donut cafe that's already become a local institution.

Directed by Taylor Peterson and Rebecca Williams for the 2013 Documentary Video Institute.

Catherine Edgerton and Kyle Knight are a couple of young musicians homesteading in Durham who derive a significant portion of their daily calories from grocery store castoffs.

Directed by Martin Stephen Frommer and Mark I. Kalish for the 2013 Documentary Video Institute.

At the Transplanting Traditions Community Farm, a Karen refugee from Burma named Tri Sa tends twenty-seven rows of crops and finds community with fellow Karen.

Directed by Morgan Capps and Heather Stewart Harvey for the 2013 Documentary Video Institute.

Mel Melton, a chef and musician from New Orleans, runs a classic Louisiana roadhouse in a nondescript suburban mall.

Directed by Vonn Davis and Patty Vega for the 2013 Documentary Video Institute.

A young distiller from Lithuania crafts a traditional Lithuanian spiced honey liqueur, which he bottles by hand and sells.

Directed by Meredith McCarroll and Grace Mendenhall for the 2013 Documentary Video Institute.

A former biotech scientist pursues a passion for fine European chocolate in her Raleigh storefront.

Directed by Edmond Badham and Tony Woodard for the 2013 Documentary Video Institute.

Ricky Moore, a Culinary Institute of America graduate and former Iron Chef competitor, sells fresh seafood dishes from an extremely small wooden shack.

Directed by Jill Hamilton and Mike Jones for the 2013 Documentary Video Institute.

Lindsey Moriarty left behind two masters degrees to start selling donuts from the back of a bike, which turned into a brick-and-mortar gourmet donut bakery.

Directed by Dana Endsley and Raia Mihaylova for the 2013 Documentary Video Institute.

Building and operating a food truck has become a tradition for an extended Durham family.

Directed by Bay Love and Morgan Siem for the 2013 Documentary Video Institute.

Seth Gross owns and runs a burger joint and brewpub that uses locally-sourced produce and makes as many of their ingredients as possible in-house, down to the mustard, mayo, and relish.

Directed by Cynthia Boteler and Angela Brockelsby for the 2013 Documentary Video Institute.

A dedicated husband-and-wife team run an Italian sandwich shop.

Directed by Martin Kane and Jean Désirée Pockrus for the 2013 Documentary Video Institute.

Documentary work is creative and artistic, driven by personal motivations and talents; it is also a public process of engagement and a powerful tool for communication and for fostering understanding and change. Documentary Studies courses allow undergraduate students to connect their educational experiences and creative expression to broader community life through documentary fieldwork projects, while they also examine theoretical and practical issues related to this work through readings, screenings, and classroom discussion. Taught by CDS staff, faculty members, and adjunct instructors, these courses provide community-based experiences using the mediums of photography, film and video, audio, and narrative writing.

For more information, please visit us at documentarystudies.duke.edu/classes/undergraduate-education

Victoria Fleischer is a CDS Lewis Hine Fellow (2010-2011). This video is from her project, 'The Sacrifices They Make'.

The Center for Documentary Studies, in partnership with The Hinge, is thrilled to present the fourth installment of Professor Diablo's True Revue, featuring writer Randall Kenan, photographer and mixed-media artist Courtney Reid-Eaton, and punkabilly icon Dexter Romweber. The True Revue is an evening of art and performance at the Durham, North Carolina, club Casbah featuring writers, musicians, visual artists, and others who make use of documentary tools and methods in the creation of their art.

Randall Kenan: Randall Kenan was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1963, and spent his childhood in Chinquapin, North Carolina. He graduated from East Duplin High School in Beaulaville, North Carolina, after which he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received a B.A. in English in 1985. He is the author of many books, fiction and nonfiction, including a novel, A Visitation of Spirits, 1989, and a collection of stories, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, 1992, which was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was among The New York Times Notable Books of 1992. He is currently associate professor of English and comparative literature at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Courtney Reid-Eaton: Courtney Reid-Eaton was born in a New York City that no longer exists, in 1958. She's the exhibitions director at the Center for Documentary Studies, a photographer, book- and mixed-media artist, wife and mother. She has worked as the coordinator of an in-house corporate stock photography library, the studio coordinator at a corporate still life photography studio, and as photo editor of Guideposts magazine. Reid-Eaton was initiated into the fellowship of documentarians by photographer Mel Rosenthal at the State University of New York, Empire State College, and darkroom printing by Ellen Wallenstein at the School of Visual Arts and Barbara Grinnell at the New School in New York City. From 1992 to 1997, she directed the alternative Vis-à-Vis gallery at St. Clement's Episcopal Church and Off-Broadway Theatre in Hell's Kitchen. Her work has been exhibited in New York, New Jersey, California, and North Carolina.

Dexter Romweber: Born the seventh son of a coal miner's daughter in 1966, Dexter Romweber is an icon of the American music underground. Former frontman for the world famous psycho-surf rockabilly-garage-punk combo Flat Duo Jets, Dexter released his first of fifteen albums in 1990 to rave reviews worldwide. He starred alongside R.E.M. and The B-52s in the 1987 cult classic film, Athens, GA. Inside/Out; Omnivore Recordings is reissuing the film in a 25th anniversary edition in October 2012, which will include a soundtrack on CD. His first national tour in 1990 was as opening act for The Cramps. He was showcased on MTV's The Cutting Edge and 120 Minutes, appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, and has shared the stage with underground rock royalty such as Iggy Pop, the White Stripes, AntiSeen, Reverend Horton Heat, and many others. Romweber is also the subject of a new documentary movie, Two-Headed Cow, which includes testimonials by Jack White, Neko Case, Cat Power, and Exene Cervenka among others.

The above video includes video by Kristin Bedford and Joel Mora. Editing was done by Ross Davidson.

"I am frequently asked by people who have not seen my work why I spend my life documenting one simple place like Decatur County, Georgia. People confuse simple with small; they're not the same thing. There are no simple places or simple lives. . . . . Life [in Decatur County] is like life everywhere, and I cannot think of a higher goal than understanding what we can of it." —Paul Kwilecki, excerpted from his essay "Decatur County" in "One Place."

Though he ranks among the most important American documentary photographers of the twentieth century, Paul Kwilecki is also one of the least well known. An exhibit of his work at the Center for Documentary Studies features selected photographs from a new book of the same name, "One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia". Edited and with an introduction by CDS director Tom Rankin and coedited by Iris Tillman Hill, "One Place" is published by the Center for Documentary Studies in partnership with the University of North Carolina Press.

In a recent interview with CDS digital arts and publishing intern Joel Mora, Rankin gave some insight into Kwilecki's style and work ethic.

For more information, please see cdsporch.org/archives/tag/one-place-paul-kwilecki-and-four-d­ecades-of-photographs-from-decatur-county-georgia-book-and-e­xhibit

A look at the exhibit "One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia" on view at the Center for Documentary Studies. Video by Joel Mora.

For more information, please see cdsporch.org/archives/tag/one-place-paul-kwilecki-and-four-d­ecades-of-photographs-from-decatur-county-georgia-book-and-e­xhibit

For years, Marshall Salzman, a retired architect living in Boca Raton, Florida, has been folding and handing out origami birds. He gives them mostly to children in restaurants, but also to waiters, cashiers, hospital nurses, neighbors at the townhouse pool—pretty much everyone he comes into contact with is liable to get a bird. By a conservative estimate he's given out 20,000 of them over the years. My grandfather spent his whole life making things. He's an accomplished artist and sculptor who built houses and furniture, toys and gazebos. In 1955 he was profiled in the Chicago Tribune when he built a double-masted forty-five-foot yacht in his backyard. Folding a dozen birds a day engages his creative energies, and handing them out is a constant source of joyful interactions with the people around him.

Marc Maximov took his first class at CDS in 2006. He was fortunate to get a position as a night manager the next year; this sidetracked him from his pursuit of the Certificate in Documentary Arts but kept him immersed in the world of documentary, for which he has developed an unhealthy obsession. He helps out on various CDS projects, and also works at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, which he's been attending since 2001. A class on audio documentary at the Center got him started on another of his many vocational pursuits, as a sound designer for local theater companies; as well, he is a frequent contributor to the Independent Weekly.

Marc Maximov earned the Certificate in Documentary Arts at the Center for

Documentary Studies in December 2011.
Read more about the fall 2011 Certificate in Documentary Arts graduates and their projects at cdsporch.org/archives/9595 .

by Jennifer Shea

In 1942, Bill Manbo and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, a Japanese American internment camp in Wyoming. While there, Manbo documented both the bleakness and beauty of his surroundings using Kodachrome film—a technology then just seven years old—to capture community celebrations and to record his family's struggle to maintain a normal life under the harsh conditions of racial imprisonment. "Colors of Confinement", a new book from the Center for Documentary Studies and the University of North Carolina Press, showcases sixty-five stunning images from this extremely rare collection of color photographs, presented along with three interpretive essays by leading scholars and a reflective, personal essay by a former Heart Mountain internee.

Editor Eric L. Muller sat down with Center for Documentary Studies Communications Intern Matt Philips to talk about the book and his impression of the images.

For more information: documentarystudies.duke.edu/books/new-releases/colors-of-con­finement-rare-kodachrome-photographs-of-japanese-american-in­carceration-in-world-war-ii

Video by Joel Mora
Interview by Matt Phillips
Song: "Texas Sky" by Val Davis

by Jennifer Bartlett and Sangeeta Sinha

by Scott Harding and Kathryn Libal

by Emma Gilmore-Cronin and Debbie Ripley

A look into Star's most intriguing and elusive figure: Who is Gary Spivey, and what is he doing with that old hotel? Is he really psychic? Is that place actually haunted? All these questions and more are answered in Gary Spivey's Star Bed & Breakfast.

Alex Maness is a photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist living in Durham, North Carolina. Recent projects include theater multimedia for little Green Pig's productions of Donald, Jade City, and Night Beast. His collaboration with director Jim Haverkamp on the short When Walt Whitman was a Little Girl is currently making the film festival rounds.