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Conor Clarke is a New Zealand photographer specialising in portraiture and observational photography.

Born in 1982, she grew up in Clarks Beach, Auckland, amongst hedges and picket fences. She graduated from Elam in 2005 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

Her images are simple, still and spare, with an almost journalistic quality, recording without embellishing or trying to force a stylistic agenda. There is an underlying appreciation of order and symmetry to her photography, a self-concious neatness without being fussy. Everything is in its right place, and only the bare necessities are included to convey her commentary.

She appreciates photography in the way that it allows her to hoard and collect.

"The culture of collecting interests me a great deal - the thrill of the hunt and the satisfaction I get from finding/ photographing each subject makes further conquests necessary - a blessed obsession that renders 'the next one' the most important object in my collection."

Conor currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand, and bases herself from her sunny Eden Terrace studio, complete with dilapidated cat.