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Scarlett Carlos Clarke

Scarlett Carlos Clarke (born 1992)[1] is a British photographer and artist based in London.

Scarlett Carlos Clarke
Born1992 (age 33–34)
London, England
OccupationPhotographer
Years active2014–present
Websitescarlettcarlosclarke.com

Early life

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Carlos Clarke was born in London in 1992,[1] the daughter of British-Irish photographer Bob Carlos Clarke.[2]

Career

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Her debut solo exhibition The Smell of Calpol on a Warm Summer's Night, was at Cob Gallery in July 2021.[3] Combining photography, sculpture and video, the exhibition was said by Hannah Abel-Hirsch in The British Journal of Photography to "engender a visceral feeling tied to the experience of domesticity. That simultaneous sense of comfort and claustrophobia, which can intensify after becoming a parent."[4] Molly Cranston wrote in The Editorial Magazine that "The images themselves are lush and painterly, Clarke handles dramatic chiaroscuro like a renaissance painter, imbuing her photos with a sense of history and cinema, but the buzz-blue tones and household props (Daz detergent, Irn-Bru, Pampers) plant her subjects resolutely in contemporary Britain."[5] Nick Waplington has compared them to the works of painters Edward Hopper and Grant Wood.[6]

She is the youngest photographer to have a photograph acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, London.[7]

Publications

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  • The Smell of Calpol on a Warm Summer's Night. London: Mörel, 2024. ISBN 978-1-917282-01-7. With an essay by Nathalie Olah. Edition of 300 copies.
  • Podunk - Nadia Lee Cohen by Scarlett Carlos Clarke. Tokyo: IDEA Ltd. 2026. Comb Bound. Edition of 500 copies.

Group exhibitions

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  • 2015: Take! Eat!, Diane Chire and Mc Llamas, St Marylebone Parish Church, London[8][better source needed]
  • 2016: New Femininity # 1, curated by GIRLS, Blender Studio, Berlin[8]
  • 2017: A Story the World Needs to See, Berlin Feminist Film Week, Berlin[8]
  • 2018: New Femininity # 2, Curated by GIRLS, Mutuo Galeria, Barcelona[8]
  • 2018: Pillow talk, Curated by Antonia Marsh, Palm Tree Gallery, London[8]
  • 2019: New Femininity # 3, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam[8]
  • 2022: Unsafe At Any Speed, Morton St. Partners, curated by Kenny Schacter, New York[9]
  • 2025: Photos On Fridges, Harkawick, New York[10]

Collections

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References

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  1. 1 2 "Scarlett Carlos Clarke". Mörel. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
  2. ↑ "Cob Gallery : Scarlett Carlos Clarke : The Smell of Calpol on A Warm Summer's Night". The Eye of Photography. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  3. ↑ Allione, Pauline (August 2021). "La vie de femmes enceintes en confinement documentée dans une série photo suffocante". Arts Konbini. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  4. ↑ Abel-Hirsch, Hannah (July 2021). "Scarlett Carlos Clarke's sickly sweet vision of domesticity". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  5. ↑ Cranston, Molly (August 2021). "Scarlett Carlos Clarke". Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  6. ↑ Dinsdale, Emily (9 July 2021). "Scarlett Carlos Clarke captures lockdown motherhood in surreal imagery". Dazed. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  7. ↑ Shadbolt, George (19 May 2011). "The British Journal of Photography". The British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Scarlett Carlos Clarke". Cob Gallery. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  9. ↑ "Kenny Schachter & Morton St Partners: Unsafe At Any Speed – zingmagazine". Retrieved 7 April 2026.
  10. ↑ "Scarlett Carlos Clarke". www.harkawik.com. Retrieved 7 April 2026.
  11. ↑ "Scarlett Carlos Clarke - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
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