For the past 18 years, photojournalist Giles Clarke has covered many of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis zones in over 80 countries, from Yemen to Somalia, Iraq, Ukraine, and, in early 2025, Sudan. His focus has been mainly on the cost and carnage wrought upon the civilian population and many other social and environmental injustice issues.

Clarke will present images, share stories from working in some of these regions, and offer advice for aspiring photojournalists looking to document the more troubled areas of our ever-changing world.

Giles Clarke is a UK-born photojournalist who captures poignant moments of current and post-conflict global issues. He began his photography career in West Berlin in the mid-1980s, at the height of the Cold War, as a television news camera assistant. Clarke then spent 12 years in London and the US from 1989 onwards as a professional Black and White photographic printer before moving to New York City in 1995, where he continued printing, eventually ending up in the Richard Avedon darkroom.

After a five-year stint working in Los Angeles for Channel 4 (UK), Clarke began reporting from Bhopal, India, on the ongoing toxic legacy of the Union Carbide gas disaster in 1984.  In 2013, Clarke was signed by Getty Images Reportage and continues today to syndicate news and feature imagery through Getty Images as a featured contributor.

In 2016, Clarke traveled with Mr. Ban Ki-moon to over 40 countries to document the UN

Secretary-General's final year of tenure. Also, in 2016, the US National Press Photographers Association awarded Clarke the first prize for his Haiti work, 'Waste In Time,' in the Environmental Picture Story category.

In 2017, he was presented with a Lucie Statue at Carnegie Hall for 'Yemen In Crisis'. Clarke received a Gold Award for his work covering Yemen by PX3 Prix De La Photographie Paris in 2021. In September 2021, 'Yemen; Conflict + Chaos' was exhibited at Visa pour L'Image in Perpignan. In December 2021, Clarke was awarded the 'WARS Photography Award' created by 'Associazione 46 Parallelo / Atlante Delle Wars in Italy. In October 2022, Clarke was awarded the Sharjah Government Communication Award for his past work in the prisons of El Salvador.

In 2023, Clarke exhibited 'Without Water, We Die' from Somalia at the 35th annual Visa pour L'Image in Perpignan and 'Waste In Time/Haiti' at Xposure in Sharjah. In June 2024, Clarke won the 2024 World Report Award (Master Award section), presented by the Festival of Ethical Photography in Italy, for his Haiti reportage since 2014.