A new exhibit at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Ackland Art Museum is something of a homecoming for documentary photographer Bill Bamberger.
The UNC alumnus and Duke University professor spent the past two academic years photographing and working with more than 250 students at Durham School of the Arts for the newest iteration of his series “Boys Will Be Men.” But, the story behind the project actually starts about 40 years ago.
In 1984, Bamberger was a teacher at an all-male private boarding school in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Grappling with his own experiences and questions about masculinity, Bamberger began to photograph students as they navigated the path from adolescence to manhood…