Tim Clark

Curator - April 2018

Tim Clark is a curator, writer and editor. Since 2008 he has been Editor in Chief and Director at 1000 Words, which was nominated for Photography Magazine of the Year at the Lucie Awards 2014 and 2016. Also previously Associate Curator at Media Space, The Science Museum in London, exhibitions he worked on included Julia Margaret Cameron: Influence and Intimacy (2015) and Gathered Leaves: Photographs by Alec Soth (2015-2018), a major, mid-career touring retrospective that travelled to The National Media Museum in Bradford, The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, FOMU in Antwerp and Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.

He has organised many exhibitions independently, most recently Peter Watkins: The Unforgetting at Webber Gallery (2017) and Rebecoming: The Other European Travellers at Flowers Gallery (2014), featuring works he commissioned by Tereza Zelenkova, Virgilio Ferreira, Lucy Levene and Henrik Malmstrom. Together with Greg Hobson he curated Photo Oxford 2017, comprising numerous solo presentations by artists such as Edgar Martins, Mariken Wessels, Martin Parr and Sergei Vasiliev and Arkady Bronnikov from The Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive. He writes widely for the likes of FOAM, TIME Lightbox, Photoworks, Objectiv and The British Journal of Photography, as well as in exhibition catalogues and photobooks. New writing includes essays on the work of the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards winners Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Sam Laughlin and Lua Ribeira on the occasion of the exhibition at Jerwood Space, London, and Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins published by Prestel to coincide with the exhibition at the Barbican, London. He is also a visiting lecturer on the MA in Photography at NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano.