The Carrack Modern Art | Durham, NC | August 22-September 21, 2019
Author: dvsmith
daughters and sons
In 1925, a U.S. Navy vessel wrecked in eastern Ohio. Sixty years later, a wrecker driver memorialized the event that shaped his hometown.
ground truth
Sometimes, the answers are right in front of you.
‘Nothing Sexier than Two-Stroke Smoke…’
The intersection of education funding, small-town culture, vintage motor scooters and mineral rights is messy and muddy.
representing the void
With the removal of Robert E. Lee’s statue from the Chapel portal and the recently announced decision to leave the space vacant for the foreseeable future, the unoccupied alcove is symbolically important and affords an opportunity for an onging artistic intervention projecting pivotal, yet under-represented historic figures who had an impact on Duke, Durham and/or…
A Mess of Feesh
Core Sound Waterfowl and Coastal Heritage Museum, Harkers Island, NC | April 3 – August 12, 2017
There’s Content
Rubenstein Photography Gallery Durham, NC | March 3 – June 20, 2017
Documentary Arts and the Photographic Tradition: A View from Duke University
Chinese Photographic Art Festival, Beijing | November 5, 2016
A Mess of Feesh: Family, Food and Fishing on Harkers Island
Since before there was a North Carolina, generations have lived off the waters of the Core Sound. Their way of life, their love of the water, their determination to survive, their culture, language and cuisine has fed the spirit and body of the state from one generation to the next.
A Mess of Feesh
Since February 2015, Dan Smith has documented the story of Eddie Willis, his wife Alison, their three year old daughter, Maggie and the dozens of family, friends and employees who work with them. Eddie, a fourth generation Harkers Island fisherman and Alison, currently appointed to the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission, are leading the effort…
no sight but thine and mine
An experimental short form documentary bridging the divide between cosmetic ocular prosthetics and cutting edge retinal prosthetics which have restored sight to Larry Hester, who was blind for more than 30 years.
2556
What is it that you love the most? Fusion. Fusion is the very heart of all existence. Of all matter. Of all love.
The Blind Pig
A dozen contemporary chefs from across the United States have a single day to produce a locally-sourced pop-up community dinner on the historical estate of Ebenezer Harker.
Beyond: Cameras
Horace Williams House | October 4-26, 2015
Hidden Stories of Abandoned Places
What can photos, archival documents, personal recollections, and video reveal about the people who once inhabited now-abandoned places and the circumstances that caused them to leave it behind?
Phone Home Durham
Power Plant Gallery | July 14-August 22, 2015
masterstroke
What is it like to make art using the human body as a canvas?
Follow artist Jon Son as he creates an original and temporary work of art.
evolutions | digressions
Power Plant Gallery | May 7-15, 2015
All the Harvests of Tomorrow
The Land Loss Prevention Project, dedicated to saving struggling farmers and seeding the next generation, is, itself, in a fight to survive as the political, economic and agricultural landscape of North Carolina faces dramatic changes.
Camille
An ongoing collaboration with artist Camille I., to create paintings based on our photographic sessions.
Justify Sinners
Duke University | April 19, 2015
sin eater
The sin-eater’s burden was simple: cleanse the soul of the damned by consuming their past.
Discards
An abandoned schoolhouse is left to time.
market|share
There’s no better place to the way food brings people together and catch some local color than Durham Central Park on a Saturday morning, even in the dead of winter.