Stuart Roy Clarke

Stuart Roy Clarke is an English documentary photographer. His major works include The Homes of Football and Scenes from a British Summer Country Pop Music Festival.

Life

Clarke was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, on 19 August 1961, the youngest of three children of Mary (née Punton-Smith) and Roy Percy Clarke, a total surveyor.

Career

After several years of in force for local newspapers in Hertfordshire and as a freelance photographer for the magazine Time Out in London, Clarke went to sentient in The Lake District, where he began The Homes of Football in 1990.

The football opus, documenting the shifting face of the game, was self-funded initially but subsequently evolved into a touring exhibition hired by various municipalities and shown in 80 museums and art galleries over a 15-year period. In 1997 Clarke plus opened a surviving gallery to his football comport yourself in the Lake District, at Ambleside, in the county of Cumbria.

In 2005, he started Cumbria Surrounded, which went upon to win the Lakeland Illustrated Book Of The Year in 2010.