Carolyn Drake

Carolyn Drake (born 1971) is an American photographer based in Vallejo, California. She works on long term photo-based projects seeking to interrogate dominant historical narratives and imagine alternatives to them. Her work explores community and the interactions within it, as well as the barriers and connections between people, between places and between ways of perceiving. her practice has embraced collaboration, and through this, collage, drawing, sewing, text, and found images have been integrated into her work. She is interested in collapsing the traditional divide between author and subject, the real and the imaginary, challenging entrenched binaries.

Drake's extensive work among people in Central Asia, and Xinjiang in China, is presented in two self-published books, ''Two Rivers'' and ''Wild Pigeon''. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presented a solo exhibition of the latter and acquired the collection of original works from the project in 2018.

Drake is a member of Magnum Photos. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lange-Taylor Prize, the Anamorphosis photo book prize, a Fulbright fellowship, a World Press Photo award and the HCB Award. Her work is held in the collections of the U.S. Library of Congress and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Her exhibition ''Men Untitled'' is on at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris, until January 14, 2024. Provided by Wikipedia