Carolyn Drake is an American photographer based in Vallejo, California. She works on long term photo-based projects seeking to interrogate dominant historical narratives and imagine alternatives to them. Drake’s work has been supported by a Guggenheim fellowship, the Anamorphosis Prize book prize, Peter S Reed Foundation, Lightwork, the Do Good Fund, the Lange Taylor prize, Magnum Foundation, the Pulitzer Center, a Fulbright fellowship, and the Henri Cartier Bresson Award. Her work has been exhibited widely at institutions including SFMOMA, Yancey Richardson Gallery, MoCP Chicago, and McEvoy Foundation for the Arts among others.  Drake is a member of Magnum Photos.