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Carolyn Drake (born in 1971 in California) is a North American photographer based in Athens, Georgia. She works on personal documentary projects, assigned commissions such as magazine editorial work, workshops, and gives lectures. Drake had a "multimedia job in New York's Silicon Alley" until starting as a photographer at the age of 30.〔 She has documented the cultures of central Asia, and Xinjiang in China, in two well received self-published books, ''Two Rivers'' and ''Wild Pigeon.'' She has been a member of Panos Pictures,〔 and is a nominee member of Magnum Photos; she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship,〔(Carolyn Drake ), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 7 September 2015.〕 the Lange-Taylor Prize,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 access-date = 7 September 2015 )〕 four first place Pictures of the Year International awards and a World Press Photo award;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 access-date = 7 September 2015 )〕 and her work is held in the collection of the US Library of Congress. ==Life and work== In 2006, Drake moved to Ukraine and in 2007 to Istanbul, Turkey, until 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 access-date = 10 September 2015 )〕 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 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. 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; it was well received by Sean O'Hagan. 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. Drake 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). There is discord between the Chinese authorities and the indigenous ethnic Uyghur population. ''Wild Pigeon'' was well received, again by Sean O'Hagan,〔 who wrote that "Drake is a master of atmosphere"; and by Martin Parr; Colin Pantall; Blake Andrews; 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". 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 (the people Drake photographed ) are unexpectedly rich and create the sense of a place that is both () 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."〔 In 2013 Drake and her partner, photographer Andres Gonzalez, moved from Istanbul to Water Valley, Mississippi, to begin a new body of work;〔 then in 2014 to Athens, Georgia. In 2015 she became a nominee member of Magnum Photos.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carolyn Drake」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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