Adrian Clarke (photographer)
Adrian Clarke is an English photographer. Originally trained and practising as a civil liberties lawyer, Clarke made the switch to photography in 2003.
His work is in a social realist style. His first major set of pictures was Framed, a series of pictures of subjects who had served long prison sentences for crimes they did not commit. Between 2004 and 2007 he worked in partnership with the County Durham Drug and Alcohol Action Team photographing a community of abusers of drugs and alcohol in the north east of England. The work was collected in a book, Gary's Friends, named after Gary Crooks, a reformed dealer who introduced him to friends and relatives.[1] The work was published in September 2007 and was shown at the Durham Arts Festival in June 2008.
His most recent work is South Bank a series of portraits of residents of the area between Middlesbrough and Redcar and continues the themes explored in his earlier work. The work was displayed at the Python Gallery in Middlesbrough in May and June 2009.
Clarke was married to the writer Rachel Cusk.[2] While Cusk has written and spoken publicly on their marriage in graphic detail in The Guardian[3] and the BBC,[4] Clarke has not spoken about their marital split.[5]
Footnotes and references
- ↑ "A Portrait of Addiction". Northern Echo. Retrieved 2008-05-03.
- ↑ "Marriage can’t be taken for granted". Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 3 November 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ↑ "Rachel Cusk: my broken marriage". London: The Guardian. 17 February 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- ↑ "Woman's Hour". The BBC. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- ↑ "When silence speaks louder than slurs: Rachel Cusk's ex-husband refuses to be drawn on their marital split". London: The Telegraph. Archived from the original on September 9, 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
- Clarke, Adrian; Masters, Alexander (4 September 2007). Gary's Friends. The West Pier Press. ISBN 978-0-9555759-0-7.