I’m Clare, an experienced neurodiverse professional photographer based in East Sussex, England.
As a late-diagnosed autistic mother in a neurodiverse family, I’m passionate about photography’s potential to contribute to a better understanding of the world we inhabit.
My personal projects explore women’s identities in culture and can range from online personas to the treatment of medical conditions and neurodiversity. Through my research, I locates symmetries between historical events and contemporary experience. Each builds on a narrative that questions future directions in more thought provoking ways.
Read my interview with PhotoVoice about my practice.
Clients include
ICHG, Get Hastings Magazine, Pregnancy Sickness Support, BBC Culture, Frock Up Friday, Firsts London, Emerge Education, Snap Fitness, Weber, Syngenta Photography Award, Bauer Media, Grazia, Heat, P&B, M&B, Empire, The Foundling Museum, Towner Art Gallery, Orleans House Gallery, Museum of Freemasonry, Catalyst Education Change Agents, The Africa Channel, Sky.
Facilitation
2025 - The Cove: Against The Tide. Hastings Contemporary, UK
2025 - Darkness to Dawn: Reclaiming Yourself After HG. Science Gallery London, UK
2016-17 - Led 6 month research project and exhibition So That They Be Usefull To Themselves, The Foundling Museum, London
2014 - Curatorial Assistant for David Campany, Walker Evans: The Magazine Work, MOCAK, Krakow Photo Month, Poland
2014 - Selected for the Brighton Photo Fringe Emerging Curator Mentorship Award, UK
Exhibitions
2025 - The Curse of the Blessing, DNJ Gallery, California, USA
2025 - The Hidden Mothers, Science Gallery London, UK
2024 - The Hidden Mothers, ICHG, California, USA
2024 - Real /Relative, No Title Gallery, Venice, Italy
2024 - Unveiling The Hidden Mothers, The Houses of Parliament, London, UK
2023 - Out Front, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK
2016 - Magenta Flash Forward Winners, Division Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016 - As Document, Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK
2015 - Salon 15, Photofusion, London, UK
2015 - In Our Time, P3 Ambika, London, UK
2014 - Salon 14, Photofusion, London, UK
2014 - Departure, P3 Ambika, London, UK
2014 - Showcase, London Gallery West, London, UK
2009 - Soul i-D, Christie’s, London, UK
2009 - Soul i-D, Salone Internazionale Del Mobile, Milan, Italy
2009 - Safe & Sound i-D, Gallery 6, New York, USA
2009 - Soul i-D, Christies Rockefeller Plaza, New York, USA
2008 - Soul i-D, Galerie Azzedine Alaia, Paris, France
2007 - Safe & Sound i-D, LCF Rootstein, Hopkins Gallery, London, UK
2007 - Safe & Sound i-D, Showroom C.P, Milan, Italy
2007 - LCF Graduate Show, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
Awards
2016 - UK Winner, Magenta Flash Forward Competition, Canada
2016 - Shortlisted for Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2016 - Düsseldorf Photo Festival's Portfolio Review, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Germany
2015 - Jerwood Visual Arts Portfolio Walk, Jerwood Space, London, UK
Collections
2025 - The Birth Rites Collection, UK
Artist Residencies
2024 - La Devignère Summer Artist Residency, France
Gained Experience
2024 - Medical Photographer, Medical Imaging Department, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, UK
2013 - Picture Editor, Save The Children, UK
2011 - Shadowing Photographer for: The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Published - Books
The Hidden Mothers, self-published
Flash Forward 2016, published by Magenta
i-D, Safe & Sound, published by Taschen
Soul i-D, published by Taschen
Published - Online and Print
PhotoVoice, Get Hastings Magazine, F2 Freelance, Grazia, Heat, Closer, FHM, P&B, M&B, More, Empire, Jaunt, World Photography Organisation, The Magazine, Hotshoe, Flip, SMBH Magazine, ColoRising, The Roaming Eye, BBC, TheTelegraph, The Old Girls Club
Education
Certificate in Ethical Participatory Practice. PhotoVoice, London. 2025
MA in Documentary Photography & Photojournalism, Westminster University. 2015
BA Honours in Fashion Photography, The London College of Fashion. 2007
BTEC National Diploma in Photography, Kingston College. 2005