Carolyn Drake

Carolyn Drake (born 1971)[1] is an American photographer based in Athens, Georgia. She works on personal documentary projects, assigned commissions such as magazine editorial work, workshops, and gives lectures.[2] She has documented the cultures of central Asia, and Xinjiang in China, in two well received self-published books, Two Rivers and Wild Pigeon.

Drake has been a member of Panos Pictures,[1] and is an associate member of Magnum Photos. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship,[3] the Lange-Taylor Prize,[4] four first place Pictures of the Year International awards and a World Press Photo award;[5] and her work is held in the collection of the U.S. Library of Congress.

Life and work

Drake was born in California. She had a "multimedia job in New York's Silicon Alley" until starting as a photographer at the age of 30.[1]

In 2006 she moved to Ukraine and in 2007 to Istanbul, Turkey, until 2013.[6] Whilst based in Istanbul she made two long term projects, one in the central Asian countries that were part of the Soviet Union, Two Rivers, and one on the Chinese side of central Asia, Wild Pigeon.

Partly funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship, Drake made fifteen journeys over five years[7] travelling and photographing in the once vibrant region of central Asia that lies between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers that once nourished it.[8] The region, encompassing Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, was transformed when the rivers were diverted for cotton irrigation by the former Soviet Union. Drake's resulting self-published book, Two Rivers (2013), was financed via Kickstarter;[9][10] it was well received by Sean O'Hagan.[11] For Jeffrey Ladd, the book's design (by Sybren Kuiper), notably the way some photographs on recto pages have their right edges on the verso, detracted from it.[12]

She spent seven years visiting Xinjiang in western China (officially called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), photographing the Uyghur people for her self-published book Wild Pigeon (2014).[13] There is discord between the Chinese authorities and the indigenous ethnic Uyghur population. Wild Pigeon was well received, again by Sean O'Hagan,[13] who wrote that "Drake is a master of atmosphere";[14] and by Martin Parr;[15] Colin Pantall;[16] Blake Andrews;[17] and Ian Denis Johnson, who wrote "this book does what a great social novel does: it forces us to think of a contested region not in terms of op-eds or political analyses, but as seen by people in daily life".[18] For Jeffrey Ladd, the design of the book (again by Sybren Kuiper) avoided the excesses of that of Two Rivers, and "The results of the collages [by the people Drake photographed] are unexpectedly rich and create the sense of a place that is both [ordinary] with daily routine and imbued with the fantastic that is accented by Drake’s own perceptions: young teenagers dance under a burst of colored light; a classroom that seems to take on surreal drama; a dog fight; skeletal remains hanging in a butcher shop."[12]

In 2013 Drake and her partner, photographer Andres Gonzalez, moved from Istanbul to Water Valley, Mississippi,[19][20] to begin a new body of work;[2] then in 2014 to Athens, Georgia.

In 2015 she became a nominee member of Magnum Photos[21][22] and in 2017 an associate member.[23]

Publications

Publications by Drake

  • Two Rivers. Self-published, 2013. ISBN 978-0-615-78764-0. Edition of 700 copies. Accompanied by a separate book with a short essay by Elif Batuman and notes by Drake.
  • Wild Pigeon. Self-published, 2014. ISBN 978-0-692-27539-9. Edition of 950 copies. Includes a story, "Wild Pigeon", by Nurmuhemmet Yasin, and translated by Kolkun Kamberi; and "a small booklet glued to the inside of the back cover".[18]
  • Internat. Self-published, 2017. ISBN 978-0-692-94280-2. Edition of 500 copies.

Publications with contributions by Drake

  • Street Photography Now. London: Thames & Hudson, 2010. ISBN 978-0-500-54393-1 (hardback). London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. ISBN 978-0-500-28907-5 (paperback). Edited by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren.
  • Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2013. ISBN 9781426212727. Foreword by Ann Curry, introduction by Chris Johns. Work by Drake, Lynsey Addario, Kitra Cahana, Jodi Cobb, Diane Cook, Lynn Johnson, Beverly Joubert, Erika Larsen, Stephanie Sinclair, Maggie Stever and Amy Toensing. Published in conjunction with an exhibition, Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment at the National Geographic Museum.
  • The Catalogue Box. Dortmund: Kettler; Cologne: The PhotoBook Museum, 2014. Edited by Markus Schaden and Frederic Lezmi. German and English text. ISBN 978-3-86206-394-9. Box with individual publications (also available separately) each by Ali Taptik, Anders Petersen, Andrea Diefenbach, Carlos Spottorno, Carolyn Drake, Chargesheimer, Cristina de Middel, Daidō Moriyama, David Alan Harvey, Dominique Darbois, Ed Templeton, Hans-Jürgen Raabe, Jiang Jian, Julian Germain, Marks of Honour, Oliver Sieber, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, Ricardo Cases, Stephen Gill, Susan Meiselas, and Todd Hido. Published on the occasion of the inauguration of the PhotoBook Museum.

Awards

  • 2005: First Place, Community Awareness Award, 62nd Pictures of the Year International Competition, Pictures of the Year International, for "The Lubavitch" an untitled photograph from Two Rivers.[24]
  • 2008: Award of Excellence, Feature Picture category, 65th Pictures of the Year International Competition, Pictures of the Year International, for a photograph in Ukraine.[25]
  • 2008: First Place, Feature Picture Story category, 65th Pictures of the Year International Competition, Pictures of the Year International, for "Hotshoe".[26]
  • 2008: Second prize, Daily Life stories, World Press Photo Awards, World Press Photo, Amsterdam.[5]
  • 2008: Lange-Taylor Prize, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC. Awarded to Drake and Ilan Greenberg for Becoming Chinese: Uighurs in Cultural Transition.[4]
  • 2009: Pulitzer Center Grant, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Washington, D.C.[27]
  • 2010: First Place, Science/Natural history category, 67th Pictures of the Year International Competition, Pictures of the Year International, for an untitled photograph from Two Rivers.[28]
  • 2010: First Place, Science/Natural history picture story category, 67th Pictures of the Year International Competition, Pictures of the Year International, for "Paradise Rivers".[n 1][29]
  • 2010: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.[3]
  • Open Society Foundations grant.[30]
  • 2014: Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Grantee.[31]
  • 2015: Finalist, Best Photography Book Award, 72nd Pictures of the Year International Competition, Pictures of the Year International, with others for Women of Vision (2013).[32]
  • 2016: Winner, Anamorphosis Prize, for Wild Pigeon, receiving $10000 USD.[33]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Exhibitions with others

Collection

Drake's work is held in the following public collection:

Notes

  1. ↑ Drake's "Two Rivers" series appears to have originally been named "Paradise Rivers".
  2. ↑ Exhibited partially concurrently with Across the Caucasus: Photographs and Manuscripts from the John F. Baddeley Collection, 1 May – 30 September 2009, "On show in the Museum’s special display case for original photographic material".

References

  1. 1 2 3 "undefined". Panos Pictures. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 Griggs, Tom (21 November 2014). "Interview: Carolyn Drake". Fototazo. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  3. 1 2 Carolyn Drake, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  4. 1 2 "2008 Winners: Ilan Greenberg and Carolyn Drake". Duke University. Archived from the original on 18 January 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Daily Life, second prize stories". World Press Photo. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  6. ↑ Carolyn Drake. "About". Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  7. ↑ Beech, Hannah (10 July 2013). "The Surreal World of Central Asia: Two Rivers by Carolyn Drake". Time. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  8. ↑ Curtis, Elissa (20 May 2013). "Two Rivers: A Journey through Central Asia". The New Yorker. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "Two Rivers". Kickstarter. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  10. ↑ "Carolyn Drake launches Two Rivers book project on Kickstarter". Panos Pictures. 18 March 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  11. ↑ O'Hagan, Sean (4 August 2013). "Two Rivers by Carolyn Drake – review". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  12. 1 2 Ladd, Jeffrey. "Wild Pigeon by Carolyn Drake". 40×50 Editions. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  13. 1 2 O'Hagan, Sean (10 December 2014). "China's wild west: photographing a vanishing way of life". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  14. ↑ O'Hagan, Sean (13 December 2013). "The best independent photobooks of 2013". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  15. ↑ Parr, Martin (11 December 2014). "Best Books 2014: Martin Parr". Photo-Eye. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  16. ↑ Pantall, Colin (2 February 2015). "Book Review: Wild Pigeon". Photo-Eye. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  17. ↑ Blake Andrews (20 March 2015). "Recently Received". B. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  18. 1 2 Johnson, Ian (13 April 2015). "China: What the Uighurs See". New York Review of Books. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  19. ↑ "Reflexive Lens: Carolyn Drake and Andres Gonzalez". The Fader. 21 October 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  20. ↑ Brown, Nic (1 April 2014). "Small-Town Renaissance: Water Valley, Miss". National Trust for Historic Preservation. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  21. ↑ "Magnum announces latest nominees". British Journal of Photography. Apptitude Media. 162 (7839): 7. 2015.
  22. ↑ Laurent, Olivier (28 June 2015). "Magnum Photos Adds Record-Breaking Number of New Members". Time. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  23. ↑ "Annual General Meeting (AGM) - Magnum Photos". Magnum Photos. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  24. ↑ "First Place: Community Awareness Award". Pictures of the Year International. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  25. ↑ "Award of Excellence: Feature Picture". Pictures of the Year International. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  26. ↑ "Feature Picture Story". Pictures of the Year International. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  27. ↑ "Women of Vision at National Geographic". Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. 22 December 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  28. ↑ "First Place: Science/Natural History". Pictures of the Year International. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  29. ↑ "Science/Natural History Picture Story". Pictures of the Year International. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  30. ↑ "Paradise Rivers". Open Society Foundations. 7 November 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  31. ↑ Bicker, Phil (26 March 2014). "TIME Exclusive: Magnum Emergency Fund Announces 2014 Grantees". Time. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  32. ↑ "Winner: Best Photography Book Award". Pictures of the Year International. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  33. ↑ "Winner: Wild Pigeon – Carolyn Drake". Anamorphosis Prize. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  34. ↑ "Carolyn Drake: Photographs of Central Asia" (PDF). Pitt Rivers Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 June 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  35. ↑ "Press Release – 23/02/09" (PDF). Pitt Rivers Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 June 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  36. ↑ ""Paradise Rivers" by Carolyn Drake". Third Floor Gallery. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  37. ↑ "Street photography now at the Third Floor Gallery Archived 1 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine.", In-Public, 5 October 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  38. ↑ "Carolyn Drake (USA): Paradise Rivers". Guernsey Photography Festival. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  39. ↑ "Paradise Rivers". Open Society Foundations. 16 March 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  40. ↑ "Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour". Somerset House Trust. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  41. ↑ "'Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment' Exhibition Opens Oct. 10 at National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C." National Geographic Society. 3 September 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  42. ↑ "Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment". National Geographic Society. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  43. ↑ "Six New Photographers Joined the World's Most Exclusive Photo Agency". Vice Media. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  44. ↑ Allen, Erin (6 March 2014). "Pics of the Week: Celebrating Women's History". Library of Congress. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  45. ↑ "Two rivers". Library of Congress. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
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