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Maggie Clarke has always had an eye for
landscape as well as for rock and rollers. Her long-standing interest in
environmental studies and photography were both sparked while on a junior
year exchange program at Dartmouth College. She often will combine
interests, for example, shooting landscapes by day and concerts by night
while on tour. In 1981/82 she combined her love of bike touring with
photography of the Chinese landscape and peoples.
Landscape
photography.
Since the late 1960s she has focused her
camera lens on subjects as diverse as mountains (Canadian and Colorado
Rockies, Whites, Greens, and Berkshires of New England, the Alps, as well
as Fuji in Japan), rainforests (Washington to Alaska), peoples and
environment of southeast China, and gardens (English, Dutch, Canadian as
well as American gardens.
Concert
photography.
Maggie's
first foray into rock concert photography was with
Paul McCartney and Wings in 1976.
Since 1995
Maggie has photographed dozens of 1960s and 1970s rock acts in hundreds of
concerts and sold thousands of rock concert photographs to fans and
the Moody Blues have used her photographs on T-shirts. Richard X.
Heyman, a rocker from New York City, employed Maggie to shoot his Actual
Sighs CD covers, and her photos have been in numerous fan magazines.
Maggie also freelances as an environmental consultant and has often been an adjunct professor of Geography
at Hunter College, having earned her Ph.D. in earth and environmental sciences
in 2000, and served on the executive boards of a multitude of environmental
technical and citizens' advisory committees specializing in waste prevention and
recycling. She is webmaster for RING (www.ringgarden.org),
and took many of the photos featured at the community garden she founded in 1984. Her other photo-based website, from
which she has sold thousands of photos of the Moody Blues is
www.moodyland.org.
Click here for her other websites and a profile in the
New York Times. She can be reached at
mclarke@hunter.cuny.edu
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