Description: Documentary photographer based between Eastbourne and London, UK. Vic Odden Award winner 2022 - Royal Photographic Society. Personal projects include Reality Trauma, In the Blood.
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Carly Clarke (b. 1985) is a British documentary and portrait photographer working primarily with medium format film. After completing her BA in photography at Middlesex University, London she was awarded the Luck-Hille Postgraduate Photography scholarship for her Master’s degree in Photography, also at Middlesex. Her work mainly focuses on social issues that may otherwise go unnoticed. Storytelling through the voices of the people she photographs is key to her work. She has personally researched, organised
When she was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma in 2012, she created a self-portrait project, Reality Trauma , documenting her journey through treatment and recovery. She subsequently created a second project, In the Blood , seven years later when her younger brother Joe was diagnosed with the same type of cancer. Reality Trauma has been widely commended and has been featured worldwide on BBC News Online, BBC TV local news, photography podcasts, and a radio show. She won the Royal Photographic Society's Vic Od