Photographer 3

Lincoln Clarke
I have chosen Lincoln Clarke as one of my photographers as i find his project eye opening and very inspirational. He focused on the women of Vancouver who were addicted to drugs. He took a 5  year journey through the streets of Vancouver in which he grew close to the women he was photographing. Several women died during his project either from addiction or from a serial killer called Robert Pikton who had the remains of at least 5 women which were found on his farm. Clarke's project included over 300 women whom he spoke to and captured their natural expressions in his work. His work captures good evidence of addiction and the effects that it has on women.

This is a photograph showing three friends who were all suffering from heroin addiction, one of these girls eventually ended up going missing. I like this photograph because it captures the despair on their faces. It shows how draining that the life they live can be. 

This is a photograph of a young woman who is so high off drugs that she is just sitting on a trolley on the sidewalk staring into space. This is capturing the effects that drugs have on people. This gives a greater insight into the effects that drugs have and how people react to  them. 

This woman was led to drugs and prostitution after the death of her son, she waits for clients outside the funeral home. This gives us an insight into her life as the background it is showing the reasons why she is doing what she is doing. 

In this photograph the woman who has been captured is showing such a great sad and despaired emotion. I like this photograph because it is simple in showing such a powerful emotion. It suggests that she feels this way due to her addiction to such powerful drugs which have consequently ruined her life. 

I feel his work has influenced me as i would like to try and take photographs of how one thing can have such a drastic effect on someone's life. All of these photographs are captured in black and white as they capture the emotion and feeling of the others, this is an element which i would like to incorporate into my work. 

In summary i like his work as it has a moral behind it, there's a story behind every photograph which i feel adds a deep and meaningful purpose behind his work. His work captures the raw emotion of the models he uses and i feel this would be something i would like to try and incorporate into my work when using models as it gives a deeper and more emotive aspect of the images.