Scarlett Carlos Clarke

Scarlett Carlos Clarke (born 1992) is a British photographer and artist based in London.

Early life

Carlos Clarke was born in London in 1992,

Career Her debut solo exhibition The Smell of Calpol on a Warm Summer's Night, was at Cob Gallery in July 2021. Combining photography, sculpture and video, the exhibition was said by Hannah Abel-Hirsch in The British Journal of Photography to "engender a visceral feeling tied to the experience of domesticity. That simultaneous sense of comfort and claustrophobia, which can intensify after becoming a parent." Molly Cranston wrote in The Editorial Magazine that "The images themselves are lush and painterly, Clarke handles dramatic chiaroscuro like a renaissance painter, imbuing her photos with a sense of history and cinema, but the buzz-blue tones and household props (Daz detergent, Irn-Bru, Pampers) plant her subjects resolutely in contemporary Britain." Nick Waplington has compared them to the works of painters Edward Hopper and Grant Wood.

She is the youngest photographer to have a photograph acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Publications The Smell of Calpol on a Warm Summer's Night. London: Mörel, 2024. . With an essay by Nathalie Olah. Edition of 300 copies. Podunk - Nadia Lee Cohen by Scarlett Carlos Clarke. Tokyo: IDEA Ltd. 2026. Comb Bound. Edition of 500 copies.

Group exhibitions 2015: Take! Eat!, Diane Chire and Mc Llamas, St Marylebone Parish Church, London 2016: New Femininity # 1, curated by GIRLS, Blender Studio, Berlin 2025: Photos On Fridges, Harkawick, New York

Collections National Portrait Gallery, London: 1 print (as of 14 February 2022)