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The first bound copy of Yard Work arrived yesterday and Im thrilled to share a full video (in two parts) of the finished book here, along with some snapshots of my favorite details. This has been a long and sweet collaboration - with @syb_photo_books, @colourandbooks, @josmorreefinebooks, who all worked on my first three books years ago, and with @catherinetaylor1211 who allowed me to publish a strange piece of text I wrote in an image text workshop with @laura_larson_studio. You can order the book on its own or with an 8x10 print through the link in my bio. And thank you to @coreykeller510 and @yanceyrichardsongallery for showing the work-in-progress early on.

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YARD WORK is a new book of images made in my back yard during the 2020 lockdown. The design by Sybren Kuiper and myself includes photographs of temporary sculptures I constructed from garden blooms and suburban waste. Folded between these are stills images captured by surveillance cameras I placed within the sculptures so that they might return my gaze. It’s my playful poke at the power dynamics built into photography.

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Only 3 days to go before we open the doors to the first ever exhibition of artist and Magnum photographer Carolyn Drake in Denmark at The Royal Danish Theatre (@kglteater).⁠
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In her exhibition 'A Good Dress' clothing and gesture operate not simply as symbols of gender, but as structures through which intimacy, power, vulnerability, and belonging are negotiated. ⁠
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The exhibition is presented at the entire 2nd floor of the foyer at the theatre and playfully and performatively challenges and expands fixed constructed identities and cultural norms. ⁠
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The exhibition is only open 11-17 June – so be sure to stop by!⁠
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You can meet the artist at our Grand Opening Thursday or book a spot at her masterclass Friday 12 June – still a few spots left!⁠
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Read more about her exhibition here: https://copenhagenphotofestival.com/event/highlight-exhibition-carolyn-drake/⁠
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📸 © Carolyn Drake @drakeycake @magnumphotos by @drakeycake

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I’ll let you be in my dreams, if I can be in yours..✨
Who wouldn’t be drawn to this poetic title, borrowed from Bob Dylan?
This book is brilliantly enigmatic:

…Traversing towns and waterways along the US-Mexico border, in this collaborative project photographers Carolyn Drake and Andres Gonzalez create an imaginative portrait of life on borderlands.

Photographing the same subjects from different perspectives, they capture dualistic accounts of scenes that appear both staged and ad hoc.

The resulting series of often uncanny pairings evokes the joys and challenges of human relations. In the background are Drake's and Gonzalez's different family histories of migration and the ways these histories intersect and diverge.
(Source: MACK)

#Migration #border #photography #publishing myphotobookfinds

@drakeycake @andresvgonzalez @mack_publishing by @drakeycake

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One more week to pre-order your copy of Yard Work with an 8x10 inch print from the book. You can order through the link in my bio.

Note to bookstores: the first books off the press will ship directly from Europe with a discount. Please DM me for details. by @drakeycake

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Next week is the opening of the 21st edition of Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The theme of the festival this year is “Ghosts of the Present” and I was invited to show a chapter of my Next Door project called Sleepers.

I started playing with consumer surveillance cameras when I moved to Vallejo, a city where lots of people use them to track suspicious people and spread warnings about them online.

For the Sleeper series, I installed surveillance cameras over my neighbors’ beds and activated them at bedtime. I wanted to make the cameras do the opposite of what we are conditioned to with them, so I turned them inward.

A line of seven color photos on a second wall were made in my neighborhood at night while walking alone in the street.

On a third wall are 25 pairs of cat eyes glowing under the gaze of the surveillance camera in my backyard. by @drakeycake

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It was such an honor to photograph this story by @pamela_colloff about the law that was supposed to let some long-incarcerated women out of prison in Oklahoma. The story was a collaboration between @propublica and @nytimesmag. Thanks @nickoxfordphoto and @natylonglegs for assisting and producing and thank you @coralie.kraft for the opportunity to spend time with these women.

Oklahoma consistently ranks among the states with the highest rates of domestic violence; it also has one of the highest rates of female imprisonment.

Cover: Norma Jane Lumpkin is serving a life sentence in connection with the murder of her husband, who abused her. She has been behind bars since 1981.

Slides 3 & 7. April Wilkens’s case was the impetus for the passage of the Survivors’ Act. Wilkens was serving a life sentence for shooting and killing her ex-fiancé after years of abuse and stalking and indifference from the police. When I photographed her in August there was hope that she might be set free soon, but prosecutors have advocated to keep her in prison.

Slide 4. Tyesha Long is serving a 27-year sentence for killing a man she had a protective order against (as did several other women). The Oklahoma County district attorney’s office opposed her application for resentencing as well.

Slide 5. Lisa Wright was released from prison last year under the Oklahoma Survivors’ Act. She had been serving a life sentence.

Slide 9. Amanda Ross was 7 when her aunt April Wilkens was arrested. Her research helped bring attention to Wilkens’s case. @freeaprilwilkens

Slide 11. Attorney Colleen McCarty advocated for the passage of the Survivors’ Act. She saw it as a corrective to a justice system that punishes domestic-violence survivors who fight back. She is now running for Tulsa county DA against the incumbent Steve Kunzweiller, who wants to keep the women locked up. by @drakeycake

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Happy January 6th Anniversary Donald Trump. You’ve inspired me to start baking. by @drakeycake

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7 months ago

Trying to use up all the Art Forums and Glorify Yourself pages that have been taking up space around here for the last five years while also revisiting a five year old photograph of myself. by @drakeycake

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8 months ago

I’ll be giving a short talk in Germany at @coberlin on Nov 18 at 18:00 about the relationship between books and exhibitions in my practice, alongside @biekedepoorter. Looking forward to seeing many of you in Paris this week too!

1-2: Glorify Yourself in Arles 2024

3: Glorify Yourself @yanceyrichardsongallery 2024

4-5: Glorify Yourself and Men Untitled @fondationhcb 2023

6-8: Men Untitled and Knit Club with @tbwbooks by @drakeycake

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Wallace and I traded clothes and took turns role playing each other for a photo shoot at his motorcycle clubhouse in 2021. Neither of us was much of an actor but we had so much fun typecasting each other and laughing about it. by @drakeycake

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