Duncan Caratacus Clark’s practice navigates the Fine Art Photography field with a number of inter-connected roles that include Fine Art Photographer, Curator, Researcher, Art Consultant and Mentor. After studying Commercial Photography and Video in Glasgow, Caratacus Clark arrived in London in 1993 and furthered his training by working as an assistant photographer in the fashion photography field
After some two years working with some of the leading British photographers, Caratacus Clark established a portraiture studio. In the late 1990’s Clark’sinterest in the fine arts grew and after a defining period of serious illness, Caratacus Clark overcame cancer, and this was to be the pivotal factor that influenced him to follow his instincts and devote himself exclusively to the practice ofFine Art Photography.
In 2002 Caratacus Clark set up the Art Consultancy Fotografique which offered private and commercial art collectors and buyers a bespoke service for theacquisition of Fine Art Photography.
To the photographers we represent Fotografique provides a marketing and sales process that identifies, anticipates and satisfies individual requirements withprofitable opportunities.
Caratacus Clark is enthusiastic in his promotion of Fine Art Photography and it understands fully the importance of the passion felt by the artists for theircraft and works, he shares his research with other practitioners and art loverswith the aim of raising standards within and awareness of the field.
Fotografiquestrives to awaken the acquirer's curiosity and interest in purchasing beautiful, inspiring, and thought provoking works.
From 2007 – 9 he was a Non Executive Director with the Association of Photographers based in London advising the AOP Gallery in Hoxton.
Fine Art Photography Practice
Brought up near Glasgow and educated in the Highlands of Scotland, Caratacus Clark has always been comfortable in both the Urban and Wilderness environments. The subjects that are chosen reflect this contrasting feeling ofbelonging.
Caratacus Clark’s art practice is founded on a passionate appreciation of photography and it's history.
He has since a young age held an keen interest in geography and with that theaging and erosion processes of nature and the climate upon the environment.
The work often explores the relationship between man and his environment andhow nature over time tempers the bold and egotistic footprint of man.
Over the last fifteen years Caratacus Clark has travelled the world with aim ofexploring places that speak to him on a deeper level, places where vibrations of a life long since past echo from wall to wall.
Recent works by the artist explore the relationship between the artist and his creative process and the demarcation with the audience and their eventual experience of the artwork. The works produced celebrate the experimental natureof the production process and the importance of free improvised play rather the than concepted process upheld as fundamentally important by other contemporary art photographers.
The artist states, “This is a mood altering activity, I am seeking to produce work and attain a position of being ‘in the zone’, at peace, without the ‘Critical Eye’ watching over me with a limiting and negative voice. Working predominately in monochrome, this I feel is aexperimental distillation process.”
While the artist is keen for the audience to enjoy the pieces, these are private three dimensional creations that came into being without the audience in mind
