Adrian Clarke (photographer)

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 didn't 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. [cite web|url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/latest/display.var.1784714.0.a_portrait_of_addiction.php|title=A Portrait of Addiction|publisher=Northern Echo|accessdate=2008-05-03] The work was published in September 2007 and will be shown at the Durham Arts Festival in June 2008.

Footnotes and references

*cite book|last=Clarke|first=Adrian|coauthors=Masters, Alexander|title=Gary's Friends|date=4 September 2007|publisher=The West Pier Press|isbn=978-0955575907

External links

* [http://www.adrianclarke.net Official website]


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