Contact:

frankeclara@aol.com

@frankeclara

Clara Franke (she/her, Hamburg, 1998) is a fine art and editorial photographer based in Amsterdam.

Her work invites into a multi-layered exploration of myth, femininity, nature, and craftsmanship, through a unique blend of photography, ceramics and film.

Her world is an ethereal textured one, viscerally meditative through an organic colour palette and usage of analog image making. No matter if documenting counter culture communities, fashion related imagery, intimate portraits, diaristic work, press images for artists, naturist nude imagery or ceramic installations; signature and narrative are clear. 

Projects frequently challenge ideas around female representation and the patriarchal separation between humans and nature, while her practice also serves her as a healing space from an eating disorder that has followed her through a large part of her life, which has strongly shaped her interest in nude imagery.

In 2021 Clara self published her first photo book called ORKZ, visualising a community and its inhabitants in an old hospital that she used to call her home as well. Currently she is working on her next publication.

SELECTED CLIENTS: HET PAROOL, STEDELIJK MUSEUM, FIFA

Recent Exhibitions/Publications

Solo Show “Otherworlds”, Projectspace 38/40, Amsterdam Nov. 2025

Sex and Politics (Art Icon), Paris, Nov. 2025

Visages/Faces (Art Icon), Arles, July 2025

Currently, Currently, Currently V2, Rotterdam 2024

Fresh Eyes, Amsterdam, Sep. 2024

Corporeality (Art Icon), Paris Nov. 2024

Short film “Amber” screened at Eye Museum Amsterdam 2023

Self published Photo book "The ORKZ" 2021

Waterhouse Gallery, Groningen 2020