Reception, Artist's Talk, and Book Signing for "Aunties: The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila" Exhibit

An artist's talk and book signing by the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography winner Nadia Sablin for "Aunties: The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila," with a reception prior to the talk.

Event to be held at the Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery.

Freelance photographer Sablin was chosen by renowned curator and historian Sandra S. Phillips to win the seventh biennial Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for her color series "Aunties." The images document, as Sabin writes, "the lives of my aunts who live in Northwest Russia. Alevtina and Ludmila are in their seventies but carry on the traditional Russian way of life, chopping wood for heating the house, bringing water from the well, planting potatoes, and making their own clothes."

Sablin receives a grant of $3,000, inclusion in a website devoted to presenting the work of the prizewinners, and publication of a book of photography; "Aunties" was recently published by Duke University Press in association with CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies. Following her solo exhibition in Duke Libraries' Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery, Sablin's photographs will be placed in the library's Archive of Documentary Arts.