…”Within the range of a few disparate locales… we get the sense of the peripatetic Clarke's flexible, sensitive take on the world. She brings different visual angles to each task…time and place are duly noted and preserved, and a certain extra dimensional x factor is achieved.”
— Josef Woodard, Santa Barbara News Press
"Patricia Clarke is returning to the photographic scene in Santa Barbara…Again using her Holga camera to create strong and visually complex single, double and triple images, her photographs tell heartfelt stories..."
— THE Magazine, Los Angeles
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Patricia is particularly interested in culture, history, and human nature. She has decades of travel in over 40 countries and years of work in visual arts and social justice efforts.
As the Co-Founder of an award-winning affordable housing nonprofit and volunteer with refugee support organizations, her work has been an exploration of humanity, both near and far. From the jungles of Borneo to the Drag culture of southern California, her interest in blending photographic work with a quest to promote understanding between cultures has powered her imagery for many years. Patricia’s award-winning photography has been featured in exhibitions and publications around the United States and Europe.
A unique collection of her photographs from the 2007 Obama Presidential campaign and 2008 Election Night in Chicago’s Grant Park is included in the Barack Obama Presidential Library Collection and the University of Chicago’s Hanne Holborn Gray Special Collections Library
She speaks English, Spanish and Italian, and enough Indonesian to sound completely ridiculous.