Taken from the window of 821 Sixth Ave, New York, NY, by W. Eugene Smith From 2002-2012 Sam Stephenson directed The Jazz Loft Project (JLP) at The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In 2009 Alfred A. Knopf published his book, The Jazz Loft Project: The Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith […]
Bull City Summer (multi-media)
Bull City Summer (BCS) documented the 2013 season at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, home of the legendary minor league baseball team. Ten nationally and internationally acclaimed artists—photographers Alec Soth, Hank Willis Thomas, Hiroshi Watanabe, Alex Harris, Frank Hunter, Kate Joyce, Elizabeth Matheson, Leah Sobsey, and Jeff Whetstone, and video artist Ivan Weiss—converged on the […]
BIG EARS (multi-media)
Big Ears in Knoxville — arguably the most important experimental music festival in the country right now — serves as the backdrop for this ongoing documentary exploration of how artists create, how audiences listen, and the connections between them. Rock Fish Stew embedded a team of documentarians in downtown Knoxville for Big Ears 2014 and 2015, covering shows but also seeking […]