Drop Count Studios is a collaboration between photographers Jon Cox & Andrew S. Bale. The two met in 2003 while pursuing their MFAs at the University of Delaware and have remained constant friends to this day.

Their first collaboration began in 2014 when they traveled to Peru to begin a documentary project on the Ese'Eja, one of the Amazon's last remaining indigenous cultures. 

In 2019, they began to work on ARRIVALS: What's Left Behind, What Lies Ahead. Arrivals is a collaborative multidisciplinary project that began by recording and disseminating the stories of refugees and immigrants living in Idaho and the Native Americans that have been displaced from their ancestral lands. Refugees, immigrants, and Native Americans from over 100 countries are participating in this project.