Magnum Photosさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Magnum PhotosInstagram)「Congratulations, Carolyn Drake @drakeycake!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Drake's new monograph Knit Club - recently published by @tbwbooks and with an essay by Rebecca Bengal - was shortlisted in the Aperture Paris Photo Book Awards. ⁠⠀ .⁠⠀ "A foreboding meditation in the vein of Southern Gothic literature, Drake’s most recent body of work emerged through her collaboration with an enigmatic group of women loosely calling themselves “Knit Club.” The nature of the club is ambiguous. It is a cross between a gang, a cult of mysteries, and a group of friends bound by secrets only they share.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ The book follows a narrative structure loosely borrowed from Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying–– that is to say, not one omniscient narrator but many disparate stream-of-consciousness voices. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ We sense the authorship of the photographs to be collaborative, the result of creative play between Drake and the club in which she found herself embedded, their process a kind of alchemy. In the style of the Gothic, Drake’s masterful use of color to create mood opens the door to the tension between the real and the supernatural. What we find, however, is not grotesque but something vital. A community that manages to exist outside the gaze or control of men. Women, children, and mothers, shrouded in masks and mystery to live a life on their own terms." - @tbwbooks⁠⠀ .⁠⠀ Drake's book has also been reviewed this week on The @guardian's 'big picture' feature. You can find the link to the original publication at the link in bio.⁠⠀ .⁠⠀ To order Knit Club visit @tbwbooks on Instagram.⁠⠀ .⁠⠀ PHOTO: (1) From the project, "Knit Club." Water Valley, Mississippi. USA. 2019. (2,3,4, 5 and 6) Knit Club contact sheets. ⁠⠀ .⁠⠀ © Carolyn Drake @drakeycake /#MagnumPhotos⁠⠀ .⁠⠀ @aperturefnd @tbwbooks @drakeycake @_true_stories_」1月2日 3時05分