Migrant Farm Worker, Samson County, North Carolina, 1976
Gelatin silver print
8 x 11.75 in
(20.32 x 29.85 cm)
American pediatrician and photographer. John Moses is a primary care pediatrician at Duke University Medical Center. His research interests have focused on exploring various health and social issues through the perspective of documentary photography. While he was an undergraduate student at Duke, Moses took a photography class from Center for Documentary Studies faculty member Alex Harris. Before attending medical school, he spent a year photographing the conditions of migrant farm workers in the Southeast. His current projects include a book about primary care medicine and a book about children and illness. His courses include Medicine and the Vision of Documentary Photography, part of the Focus Program, and Children and the Experience of Illness, in which students teach photography to children being treated for illness and write about their experiences during the semester. Of the class, he says, “It has become a way for students to process their own issues with illness.” Moses plans to continue developing other opportunities for undergraduates to work with documentary studies and medicine.
