Carolyn Drake
She decided to pursue photography at the age of 30 and has since undertaken a wide range of projects in Central Asia and China. Her work is realistic and abstract, and sometimes uses collage. One representative project is "Wild Pigeon" in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. Collages are also used in this project. The photo above is one from "Wild Pigeon." In this photo, we can see that she effectively uses collage. Collage makes it clear what she wants to show by changing the size of the objects. She makes the things she wants to show larger and the things that are less relevant smaller. I thought this photo was abstract. When I first saw it, I thought the head had been erased using Photoshop, but when I looked closely, I saw that only the arms were visible and the rest of the body was covered with a large cloth. I don't know why only the arms were visible, but I realized that the photo is not necessarily concrete or realistic. I made a collage for a portra...