Lewis Hine Documentary Fellowship

Duke University Center for Documentary Studies was founded in 1989 as the first university-affiliated institution in the country dedicated to documentary fieldwork for education and social change. The Lewis Hine Program is part of Dukes longstanding commitment to developing creative solutions for community organizations working with families and children.

Jennifer Carpenter
Jennifer Carpenter is a graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. She has reported across the globe for ABC News, The Washington Post and UNICEF. Previous to the Hine fellowship, Jennifer studied juvenile justice practices and childrens rights as a J. William Fulbright Scholar to Albania. This fall she reads for a masters degree at the London School of Economics.

Special Thanks
Alex Harris | Giles Li | Elaine Ng | Liisa Ogburn | Duke University Center for Documentary Studies: Literacy Through Photography | Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center: Michele Dandrea | Kathy Cheng | Bernadette Davidson | Anna Fan | Kim Lampereur | Russell Fenton | Sandra Lee | Robert Kordenbrock | Daniel Rosensweig | Sophia Kim Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows Program

Alphabet Project
Jennifer Carpenter

Process
How do we capture our community in a photo? Through a series of six workshops, the Alphabet Projects goal is to guide students toward a new appreciation of the power of photography as a catalyst from which to better understand our community. First, we describe our community using words. Later, we communicate these words, and our feelings towards these words, in a series of photographs. At the end of the Alphabet Project, each class has produced a 26-photograph series that relate to 26 words, which correspond to 26 letters of the English alphabet. It is the hope that every class leaves the Alphabet Project with a fresh understanding of not only their community, but also a new appreciation of each students creativity.

Participants
ACORN CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION & CARE: Claire Ming Cunniff | Ava Chan | Christine Chen | Katelyn Chen | Vera Jer | Isabelle Jer | Madison Li | Brian Lin | Raymond Lin | Wendy Ruan | Angeleyne Wong | Kyle Wong | Emily Yan | Jolin Yang | Benjamin Zeng | Janice Zhao | Theo Huang | Eric Wu ADULT EDUCATION: Dan Yu Chen | Jing Nian Chen | Man Bik Chan | Yan Hong Gu | Yu Ci Huang | Yue Cheng Huang | De Huo Li | Hui Wen Liang | Peiqing Liang | Huan Ying Liu | Mei Juan Liu | Tak Ching Tsang | Mei Qin Wang | Ai Ming Zhang | Hong Liang Zhou | Qiu Feng Zhu ARTS & ENRICHMENT: Christina Zhen | Lily Huang | David Verano | Xavier Kam | Jason Lu | Ethan Sum | Alvin Guo | Annie Yuan | Adam Wong | Meiling Xu | Philip Jor | Van Pham | Matthew Seto RED OAK AFTER SCHOOL: Guoying Yan | Brooke Entyre | Andre Grimsley | Nikki Ferguson | Ashley Mitchell | Daniel Rosensweig | Andrew Kilgore | Daniel Phifer | Christian Echeverria | Suzanne Chow | Julia Mei | Sofia Liang | Victoria Liang | Kimi Nguyen | Lynn Nguyen OAK STREET YOUTH CENTER: Arthur Grupee | Sophia Kim | Victoria Yue | Sandra Lee | Ellen Wang | Henry Ho | Emily Weng | Harry Li | Tiffany Lam

For more information regarding our photographs, words, themes & creative process, check out:

chinatownalphabetproject.com