Carolyn Drake wins two POYi 2010
Paradise Rivers March 2010
Carolyn Drake won two First Prizes in POYi 2010 (Picture of the year international award) organized by the Reynolds journalism institute.First Place - POYi category Science/Natural history: "untitled"
http://www.poyi.org/67/01/index.php
First Place - POYi category Science/Natural history picture story: "Paradise Rivers"
http://www.poyi.org/67/02/index.php
Carolyn has released an interview about her Paradise Rivers project to Orion Magazine. Direct link to the audio interview: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/5331
First Place - "untitled"
This is one of several preserved species on display in the History Museum of Aralsk, a formerly bustling Soviet fishing port on the Aral Sea. The animals were placed in Kazakhstan's "Red Book" of endangered species as water from the Syr and Amu Darya was diverted for cotton farming, causing the Aral Sea and the life it supported to deteriorate. The Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s. By 2007 it had declined to 10% of its original size, splitting into three lakes, one of which has since disappeared. Animal life around the dried South Aral Sea has vanished, and the Aralsk History Museum's taxidermy evidence of the region's once vibrant animal life are also slowly distintegrating.
visible on POYi web site: http://www.poyi.org/67/01/index.php
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First Place - "Paradise Rivers"
After incorporating the five Central Asian republics into its empire in 1917, the Soviet government began transforming the Amu and Syr Darya rivers, which run across the entire region, into a web of irrigation canals that brought cotton production to the area on a massive scale. Such large quantities of water were diverted that the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth largest inland sea, began to disappear. When Moscow's rule ended in 1991, five new Central Asian nations appeared, burdened with plunging economies, artificial borders, and a growing environmental crisis.
The water that nourishes the whole region comes from melting glaciers and snow in the mountains of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. During Soviet times, decisions about sharing of resources were made by the central government in Moscow. Now, the countries are constantly disputing how the region's dams should be used - the downstream countries want the water to be stored in reservoirs in winter and released for irrigation in summer, but the upstream countries want to release it in winter to create electricity. This is a reservoir above nurek dam in Tajikistan. The line along the shore indicates a low water level. Theoverall water supply will continue to diminish in the future.
visible on POYi web site: http://www.poyi.org/67/02/index.php
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Carolyn Drake's Bio:
Carolyn is a documentary photographer based in Istanbul. Her work has been supported through grants from the Fulbright Program, the Duke University and the National Geographic and honored by UNICEF, World Press Photo, Dorothea Lange- Paul Taylor Award and POYi. She was chosen as one of Photo District News 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch in 2006 and as one of the Magenta Foundation’s emerging photographers in 2007. Her photo career began at the age of 30,when she decided to leave her multimedia job in New York’s Silicon Alley to learn about the world through personal experience. She studied History and Media culture while in college at Brown University and later learned photography at ICP and Ohio University. She joined prospekt in September 2008.
Carolyn's Page on prospekt web site:
http://www.prospekt.it/photographer.php?id=16
Carolyn Drake vince due primi premi nel POYi 2010
Paradise Rivers marzo 2010
Carolyn Drake vince due primi premi nel POYi 2010 (Premio internazionale immagine dell'anno) organizzato dal Reynolds journalism institute.Primo premio - POYi categoria scentifica/naturale con "senza titolo"
http://www.poyi.org/67/01/index.php
Tratta dal progetto: Aral Sea Taxidermy
http://www.prospekt.it/reportage.php?id=138
Primo premio - POYi categoria storia scentifica/naturale con "Paradise Rivers"
http://www.poyi.org/67/02/index.php
Carolyn ha rilasciato un intervista sul suo progetto a Orion Magazine, Link diretto all'intervista: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/5331
Biografia:
Carolyn is a documentary photographer based in Istanbul. Her work has been supported through grants from the Fulbright Program, the Duke University and the National Geographic and honored by UNICEF, World Press Photo, Dorothea Lange- Paul Taylor Award and POYi. She was chosen as one of Photo District News 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch in 2006 and as one of the Magenta Foundation’s emerging photographers in 2007. Her photo career began at the age of 30,when she decided to leave her multimedia job in New York’s Silicon Alley to learn about the world through personal experience. She studied History and Media culture while in college at Brown University and later learned photography at ICP and Ohio University. She joined prospekt in September 2008.
Carolyn's Page on prospekt web site:
http://www.prospekt.it/photographer.php?id=16