Cork photographer Bob Carlos Clarke left behind an enduring legacy
WORKING in the dark room, developing prints of a young and beautiful model, Bob Carlos Clarke turned to his wife. “Isn’t it strange?” he said, “She’s going to get old and crumpled and withered, but I have her in my camera for ever.”
The model has inevitably aged in the intervening years and Carlos Clarke is no longer with us; ten years ago, the Cork-born photographer, best known for his work on chef Marco Pierre White’s book, White Heat, and his dark, iconic images of women in latex and little else, walked out of the Priory in London where he was seeking treatment for depression and threw himself under a train. He was 56.
