Drake Konow is an analog photographer and bookmaker. He works in Polaroid film, 35mm, and print-making. Working in the U.S. across Texas and South Louisiana, Brazil, and the Atacama Desert in Chile, his photographs explore light and shadow, error and abstraction, intimacy and loss. His installations play with the materiality, excess, and refusal of the photograph. In November 2023, Drake mounted a self-produced solo show called “Take” featuring hundreds of Polaroid photos and installed into his apartment—where many of the photos had been taken. At that same time, he published a limited edition series of five handmade photo books, based on three years of Polaroid photography. His most recent installation “secret passage hidden geography” combines carved wood, risograph prints, and Polaroid photos.