Carolyn Drake (Vallejo, CA), grew up in Maryland and studied Media/Culture and History at Brown University. Following her graduation in 1994, Drake moved to New York where she worked as an interactive designer for many years before departing to engage with the physical world through photography. She worked on projects in Turkey, Ukraine, and Central Asia for many years before moving back to the US in 2013. Drake’s work seeks to interrogate dominant historical narratives and creatively reimagine them.  Her practice embraces collaboration and has in recent years melded photography with sewing, collage, and sculpture. She has published four books: Two Rivers (2013), Wild Pigeon (2014), Internat (2017), and most recently Knit Club (2020), which was shortlisted for the Paris Photo / Aperture Book of the Year and Lucie Photo Book Awards. Her latest work, Isolation Therapy, is currently on view in SFMOMA’s show Close to Home: Creativity in Crisis. Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim fellowship, the Anamorphosis book prize, the Peter S Reed Foundation, Lightwork, the Lange Taylor Prize, and a Fulbright fellowship and is in the collections of SFMOMA, Kadist, the Open Society Institute, and the Library of Congress. She is also a member of Magnum Photos.

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