David Clarke - Tate Britain

David Clarke has been a professional fine art photographer for over 30 years. He was born in Liverpool and moved to London in the early nineteen seventies, where he is now Head of Photography for the Tate Gallery. His responsibilities include management of 11 staff at 5 Tate sites and the implementation of his main objective, to digitise and publish all works of art in the Tate Collection. The Collection consists of 90,000 paintings, sculptures and works on paper. David is also responsible for all other photography carried out at Tate, including scientific, press, promotion and architectural photography, plus the image management systems which organise and make the images accessible to staff and public alike. He is also secretary for the Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography which is an international membership organisation founded to support and promote fine art photography.

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