A foreboding meditation in the vein of Southern Gothic literature, Carolyn Drake’s most recent body of work emerged through her collaboration with an enigmatic group of women loosely calling themselves “Knit Club.” The nature of the club is ambiguous. It is a cross between a gang, a cult of mysteries, and a group of friends bound by secrets only they share.
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Carolyn Drake’s “Knit Club”
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In the West, Carolyn Drake Seeks New Expressions of American Identity
In the West, Carolyn Drake Seeks New Expressions of American Identity
Drake’s photographs reveal the textures of a nation too often reduced to myths, stereotypes, and clichés.
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Carolyn Drake’s Haunted Photographs of America’s Borderlands | The New Yorker
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Seeing Vallejo, CA through Carolyn Drake’s lens
Seeing Vallejo, CA through Carolyn Drake’s lens
Carolyn Drake is a photographer we have happily featured in the past and someone whose work we continually see appear in many publications we follow.
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Magnum Gets an Injection of New Talent From Six Photographers | American Photo
Magnum Gets an Injection of New Talent From Six Photographers
This year the organization is considering a record number of new Magnum associates to potentially join their ranks: Matt Black, Carolyn Drake, Sohrab Hura, Lorenzo Meloni, Max Pinckers and Newsha Travakolian. To celebrate the history-making occasion Milk Gallery is currently hosting, Magnum Photos: New Blood, an exhibition that highlights the diverse points of view of each of these photographers.
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2015 Magnum Nominees : The Future of Photojournalism – The Eye of Photography
2015 Magnum Nominees : The Future of Photojournalism
From film-inspired Max Pinckers to war reporter Lorenzo Meloni, from Newsha Tavakolian’s insider’s view to the conceptual work of Richard Moose, from the lyrical Carolyn Drake to the classic approach of Matt Black, the six Magnum nominees for 2015 cover the full range of current documentary trends
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Juxtapoz Magazine – “Two Rivers” by Carolyn Drake
“Two Rivers” by Carolyn Drake
Over the course of four years, photographer Carolyn Drake documented the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers from their endpoints to the source, creating a captivating and emotional body of work called Two Rivers
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Magnum Photos Blog
Magnum 2015 Annual General Meeting
Michael Christopher Brown has been made an Associate Member Carolyn Drake has been made a Magnum Nominee Matt Black has been made a Magnum Nominee Newsha Tavakolian has been made a Magnum Nominee Max Pinckers has been made a Magnum Nominee Richard Mosse has been made a Magnum Nominee Lorenzo Meloni has been made a Magnum Nominee
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‘Orphan Girls’: Photographer Carolyn Drake Captures a Hidden World In Ukraine – Feature Shoot
‘Orphan Girls’: Photographer Carolyn Drake Captures a Hidden World In Ukraine
Outside the faint burnt-yellow, brick-and-mortar walls of Internat Children’s Home you can find two disparate worlds: the verdant forest and the bustling suburb in Ternopil, Ukraine. But inside the Soviet-era building, there exists a third: populated by a few young women forced to create a world in isolation. Photographer Carolyn Drake has spent nearly a decade committing their world to the record.
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Artifacts: Photographer Carolyn Drake
Link: Artifacts: Photographer Carolyn Drake | PROOFBetween 2007 and 2012, Carolyn Drake lived in Istanbul, Turkey. From there, she traveled often to Central Asia to work on independent photography projects and to surrounding countries for editorial assignments.
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Women on the Front Lines and Behind the Lens
Link: Women on the Front Lines and Behind the Lens – NYTimes.com“Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment,” an exhibition opening Thursday and on view through March 9, 2014. It features 10 other photographers — Lynsey Addario, Kitra Cahana, Jodi Cobb, Diane Cook, Carolyn Drake, Lynn Johnson, Beverly Joubert, Erika Larsen, Maggie Steber and Amy Toensing — who have been published by the magazine in the past decade.
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The Surreal World of Central Asia: Two Rivers by Carolyn Drake
Link: The Surreal World of Central Asia: Two Rivers by Carolyn Drake – LightBoxCarolyn Drake began photographing Two Rivers in 2007, traveling frequently from her base in Istanbul. The work was funded in part by a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a finalist for the Santa Fe Prize. The book was self-published in June 2013.
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Review Santa Fe: Carolyn Drake
Link: L E N S C R A T C H: Review Santa Fe: Carolyn DrakeCarolyn Drake ‘s project, Uyghur, documents Xinjiang, China in a variety of ways–by photographing objects as a way of visually journaling her thoughts and feelings, collaborating with the people she encountered in the province and asking them to reinterpret her photographs through drawing and text, and by showing us what was and what is. This three tiered way of capturing place gives us a rich tapestry of a province in transition.
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Oslo Photo Festival: On Photojournalism and Survival
Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » Oslo Photo Festival: On Photojournalism and SurvivalThe 5th annual Oslo Photo Festival, which took place from March 16 to 20 in Norway’s capital, hosted talks by photojournalists and documentary photographers Carolyn Drake, Stephanie Sinclair, Pieter Ten Hoopen, Thomas Lekfeldt, Andrea Star Reese, Justyna Mielnikiewicz and Eugene Richards. Speakers offered insights into how they win the trust of subjects, what it takes to develop a strong personal project, and advice on surviving under difficult conditions and in an increasingly demanding profession.
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Worth a look: 100eyes – China: The Past is a Foreign Place | dvafoto
Link: Worth a look: 100eyes – China: The Past is a Foreign Place | dvafotothe talented group of photographers that comprise this issue: James Whitlow Delano, Markel Redondo, Katharina Hesse, Ryan Pyle, Xiqi Yuang, Wayne Liu, Carolyn Drake, Rian Dundon, Tim Franco, Eric Guo, Christian Als and Holly Wilmeth, M. Scott Brauer
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Astonishing Confluences in Central Asia: The Work of Carolyn Drake – NYTimes.com
Link: Astonishing Confluences in Central Asia: The Work of Carolyn Drake – NYTimes.comCarolyn Drake’s long-term project, “Paradise Rivers,” isn’t just about waterways. It’s about the environment. Politics. Culture. And change.
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Photographer Carolyn Drake And Writer Ilan Greenberg Win Lange-Taylor Prize
Photographer Carolyn Drake and writer Ilan Greenberg have won the 2008 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize. They will receive $20,000 in support of their project “Becoming Chinese: Uighurs in Cultural Transition,” which will study the Muslim ethnic group in China facing pressures to assimilate with China’s Han culture. About 10 million Uighurs live in China.
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