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Lincoln Clarkes, an award-winning photographer (National Magazine Awards, Silver; Western Magazine Awards, Gold), has worked in fashion while living in London and Paris and photographed numerous celebrities, including Deborah Harry, Helmut Newton, Noam Chomsky, Lucinda Williams and Oliver Stone. Mr. Clarkes has had solo shows in Vancouver, Toronto and Victoria and over a dozen group shows across the country. His photography has appeared in Details, People, The Globe & Mail, The National Post, The Vancouver Sun, Geist, Western Living, Saturday Night, High Times, subTerrain and British Cosmo. In 1997, Lincoln Clarkes turned his lens away from the world of glamour and began documenting the dire circumstances being endured by the marginalized women living and working on the streets of Vancouver's most troubled neighbourhood. The Heroines Series consists of over 400 portraits of addicted women in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside, and has garnered national and international media attention. Peace Arch Entertainment produced a one-hour documentary film, Heroines: A Photographic Obsession for BRAVO! and Women's Television Network. The film "is a study in pain and intimacy, artistic expression fuelled by passion and moral outrage" and is accompanied by original poems written and narrated by Susan Musgrave. The documentary opened the Leipzig Documentary Film Festival and has been screened at several other festivals since its premiere in June of 2001. (Biography courtesy of Anvil Press).