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A young multimedia artist living in New York, Carolyn Drake turned 30 just after the World Trade Towers fell. She decided to step outside her multimedia bubble and create more tangible connections through photography. Now living in Istanbul, Turkey, Drake has received Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships for her fascinating work on marginalized societies, such as China’s Uyghurs. Most recently, she documented the resurgence of a nearly lost civilization—Iraq’s Marsh Arabs—after Saddam’s oppression, for the May 2013 National Geographic.

Official Website: http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/speakers/2013/05/02/journeys-through-hidden-worlds/

Added by NatGeoLive on January 9, 2013

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