Originally published 11/20/2022
It takes a huge amount of courage to turn the camera unflinchingly towards you. It takes even more courage to do so as an "aging" 70-year old woman and continue doing so for a dozen years.
Marna Clarke did just that. Her efforts are now rewarded, The collection that resulted, which she titled “Time As We Know It,” this year won a LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award, given to 40 photographers on five continents.
Your Gray Matters is totally awed. Some people might find the pictures shocking. To them we say "what, like you're not getting old?" As a photographer myself, I admire her courage and vision.