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Help 'Document Duke' in 2015

New yearlong program to highlight images related to Duke

Jared Lazarus, a photographer with Duke Photography, submitted this image of Duke pediatrician Sarah Germana, MD, left, and Lauren McGill, MD, first-year pediatric resident, examining the first baby born at Duke Hospital in 2015. It was featured on the D
Jared Lazarus, a photographer with Duke Photography, submitted this image of Duke pediatrician Sarah Germana, MD, left, and Lauren McGill, MD, first-year pediatric resident, examining the first baby born at Duke Hospital in 2015. It was featured on the Document Duke 360 website on Jan. 1.
By Bryan Roth

How do you see Duke?

In 2015, students, faculty, staff and alumni get the chance to answer that question.

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Starting at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 1, Duke Photography and the Center for Documentary Studies launched “Document Duke 360,” a yearlong project that invites Duke community members to contribute to an ongoing visual conversation about Duke.

The crowdsourced effort will feature one submitted photo a day – chosen by Duke Photography and Center for Documentary Studies staff – on the Document Duke 360 website. A new photo will be posted between 5 and 6 p.m. EST for 365 consecutive days.

“This shouldn’t be 365 pretty pictures of Duke Chapel because we want this to be provocative and evocative,” said Chris Hildreth, director of Duke Photography. “This is an effort to get people to share their personal vision of Duke and collect 365 unique perspectives.”

Any and all Duke community members can join and submit images through the website.

Subject and content of photos is completely left up to each photographer and isn’t based solely on Duke buildings or people. Images can be of anything related to Duke. Hildreth said several themes that could help participants brainstorm ideas of what or how to shoot pictures:

  • Sustainability
  • Work week
  • Before/after
  • Open 24 hours
  • Behind the scenes

Photos from any type of device will be considered, including smartphones and high-end digital cameras. Submissions are accepted through the Document Duke 360 website.

Creators will continue to retain ownership to all content submissions to Document Duke 360, and all photos will retain attribution to the creator wherever possible. By choosing to participate and uploading content, the submitter also allows the work to be used by Duke on the Document Duke website, duke.edu and other Duke outlets both web and print.

Participants can send one photo per email but up to three photos/emails each day. All photos should be submitted as JPEGs of at least 1 megabyte in size, but no larger than 4 megabytes.

Additional information should also be shared with the submission:

  • Title of the photo in the subject line of the email.
  • A one to three sentence statement about the photo that describes where it was taken and how the image captures a unique Duke experience.
  • An email address for the submitter.

In addition to daily photos, a monthly “guest curator” will select one image from that month’s “photos of the day” that will be featured and shared on the Document Duke website, along with a brief statement about why he or she chose the image.

An exhibition of the year’s photographs will take place in 2016 with an opening reception. Outdoor screenings of photos will take place twice during 2015.

“We're hoping the overall portrait of “who we are” that Document Duke 360 creates will reveal unexpected angles and new perspectives on Duke identity,” said Elizabeth Phillips, communications director with the Center for Documentary Studies. “We’re asking people to break out of the familiar and take a deeper look at their Duke experience - from ‘ugly’ to ‘beautiful’ and all points between.”