Workshop with Carolyn Drake

Carolyn Drake works on long-term photographic projects that aim to question dominant historical narratives and create alternative, imaginative interpretations of reality. Her work explores community and the multiple interactions within it, as well as the barriers and connections “between people, between places, and between ways of perceiving”.

Over the course of five days, participants will have the opportunity, alongside Carolyn Drake, to discuss the notions of collaboration and involvement with the people they work with or the subjects they treat. The different aspects of their projects, the different stages of development, as well as the possible interactions with other media will be interrogated.

With the participants, Carolyn Drake will work particularly on the development of a long-term photographic project, and on methods of bringing a project to life without getting lost along the way.

About Carolyn Drake

Carolyn Drake was born in California and studied Media/Culture and History at Brown University, before moving to New York in 1994 to work as an interactive designer and engaging with the physical world through photography. She now lives in California and is currently developing self-reflective projects close to home. She is a member of Magnum Photos and represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery.

Carolyn Drake traveled frequently to work on long term projects. Two Rivers (2013) explores the connections between ecology, culture, and political power along the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers and earned a 2010 Guggenheim fellowship. Wild Pigeon (2014), which earned the the Anamorphosis Book prize, is an amalgam of photographs, drawings, and embroideries in collaboration with Uyghurs in western China. In Internat (2017), Drake worked with young women in an ex-Soviet orphanage to create photographs and paintings. This work was awarded the 2018 HCP fellowship and exhibited in several festivals in Europe. Knit Club (2020) emerged from her collaboration with an enigmatic group of women in Mississippi and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo Aperture Book of the Year and the Lucie Photo Book Awards. Her latest work, Isolation Therapy, was exhibited at SFMOMA’s show Close to Home: Creativity in Crisis in 2021 and at Yancey Richardson Gallery in 2022.  https://carolyndrake.com/

Practical information

Dates: 17^th – 21^st June 2024

Location: Centre national de l’audiovisuel. 1B, rue du Centenaire. L-3475 Dudelange

Audience: Professional photographers, professional filmmakers, writers, journalists, photography/audiovisual students

Prices:

-       Normal: 250€

-       Reduced: 125€ (students, jobseekers, intermittent entertainment workers, self-employed professional artists, on presentation of documentary evidence)

Max. number of participants: 8

Terms of enrolment

Please send you applications containing your CV, a portfolio, and a brief description of your project to formation@cna.etat.lu.

Deadline of application: 17^th May 2024

For further information

Mylène Carrière, tel. : +352 52 24 24 702

formation@cna.etat.lu