Clare Rodbourne

My practice explores photography’s capacity to stage atmosphere.

Working with black and white medium format analogue film, I approach historic places as constructed sets, using framing, light and close observation to visualise what is distinctive, intriguing or unexpected in each place.

Through this, I create photographs that invite the viewer to experience real places as stages for atmosphere and the imagination.

Biography

Clare Rodbourne is a fine art photographer and freelance architectural photographer based in Devon.

With a formal background rooted in a Fine Art degree and a period of tutoring art and photography in London, Clare has spent nearly a decade working entirely freelance within the commercial architectural and property sector.

Clare’s fine art photography practice has evolved from a deep foundation in spatial aesthetics within constructed spaces. This experience forms a point of departure for her use of medium format analogue photography, exploring the latent atmosphere and quiet stillness of historic built environments to present them as evocative stages for the viewer’s imagination.