David Douglas Duncan, a major American photographer, died earlier this year after a long life filled with adventure, travel and an enduring love for his family, friends and hometown of Kansas City. Duncan will be remembered for many distinguished bodies of work. His war photography broke norms with its presentation of soldiers as neither winners nor losers, rather as regular people to whom we could all relate.

“My work is about the image of intimacy,” says Kansas City artist Ruben Castillo, a second-year Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Resident who teaches in the..