Lincoln Clarkes

Who is Lincoln Clarkes?

Lincoln Clarkes is an award-winning photographer, who has published three books, Heroines, Views and Cyclists and has been the subject of two documentary films.

Heroines is an epic photographic documentary of 400 addicted women of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, which won the 2003 Vancouver Book Award, and was the subject of numerous philosophical essays. The London Observer said Clarkes' book offered “beauty in a beastly place." Globe and Mail called it “intimate, compelling and undeniably unsettling,” while The Toronto Star called it "incredibly powerful."

Views, a retrospective of his works, included a 17 song original soundtrack, featuring songs by Herald Nix, Rae Spoon and others.

Quattro Books published Clarkes' third book of photography, Cyclists, in 2013. A selection of 150 men and women riding bicycles, the book documents the cycling movement in Toronto.

In 2001, Peace Arch Entertainment produced a one-hour documentary film about Clarkes' Heroines project called, Heroines: A Photographic Obsession Heroines: A Photographic Obsession, which has aired on BRAVO! and Women's Television Network and has screened at numerous festivals.