New York Adult Entertainment: Markova-Gold and Dohrmann Win 2010 Lange-Taylor Prize
By Eli Meixler © Tiana Markova-Gold From Tiana Markova-Gold’s project on sex workers: Washington, DC 2008. Photographer Tiana Markova-Gold and writer Sarah Dohrmann won the $20,000 first prize of the 2010 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for their project “If You Smoke Cigarettes in Public, You Are a Prostitute: Women and Prostitution in Morocco.” The project explores the lives of female prostitutes in Morocco, a country with a fanatical regard for pre-marital virginity and a 60 percent illiteracy rate among women. The Lange-Taylor award is given annually by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke Univsersity to support collaborative documentary work in the spirit of photographer Dorothea Lange and writer Paul Taylor. It is awarded in the early stages of a documentary project to facilitate its completion. According to their application Markova-Gold and Dohrmann “seek to dismantle Americans’ preconceived notions of the prostitute as sexual deviant and the hijabed woman as ‘exotic.’”. Markova-Gold and Dohrmann plan to continue investi …