Kyle in Target parking lot, Twin Falls, Idaho, 2016

Aperture is pleased to present this limited-edition print in conjunction with the publication of Aperture Issue #226: "American Destiny”. “Drake is rediscovering—discovering, really—the United States as a native-made newcomer, and as one tracing a path behind those whose footsteps reveal the wild, varying textures of a nation too often reduced to myths, stereotypes, and clichés. 'What is America to me?' her work asks, pointing to the outsiders, the recent transplants, the strangers among us. Will they be strangers forever? Or will they eventually be welcomed as Americans, too?” —Garnette Cadogen

Archival Pigment Print
Paper Size: 16 x 20 inches
Image Size: 16 x 20 inches
Edition of 10
Signed and numbered by the artist

Carolyn Drake (b. 1971, Los Angeles, California) is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, the Lange Taylor Prize, a Fulbright fellowship, and the Anamorphosis Book Prize, among other awards. She is the author of two self-published photo books, Two Rivers (2013) and Wild Pigeon (2014). Her book, Internat (2017), comprising of images made between 2014 and 2016, is an imaginative collaboration with the women in a Ukrainian Internat. Having spent a decade living and working abroad, she is now based in California and making work in the US. Carolyn is a nominee at Magnum Photos.