A photography exhibit about grain opens on February 7 at the Carnegie Library Museum, 1123 Willis Avenue, Perry. The exhibit by Drake Hokanson features photographs that detail some of the forms, textures, and functions of grain elevators—ranging in size from 30 feet square to a half mile long. The images also depict the harvest itself and the people who handle it.    Hokanson said he thinks of the grain elevators as “American colossi—giant human figures on the landscape like the huge Egyptian statues in the Nile valley.” The black and white photographs were assembled from several of Hokanson’s photographic projects, including his books Lincoln Highway: Main Street across America and Reflecting a Prairie Town: A Year in Peterson. There are also numerous images from a yet-to-be published book about the Great Plains. “I realized that as I've traveled and photographed over the years, I've taken a lot of photographs of grain elevators, the harvest, and the people who do the work,” Hokanson said. “It seemed a natural thing to put them in one place and take a look at them together.”  From Montana to Iowa to Texas, Hokanson’s photographs portray the grain awaiting harvest, the combines, the men and women who move the grain, the trucks and rail cars, and the tall elevators that store the corn, wheat, and soybeans. Hokanson teaches photography and journalism at Winona State University. The exhibit is free and open to the public through March.