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Linda Day Clark is a U.S.-based photographer, visual artist and educator. She sees her camera as a tool for change and her pictures as vehicles to create relationships between the photographed subjects and the viewer.

One of her most noted projects is The Gee's Bend Photographs, an exhibition of 25 portraits, architecture and the surroundings that have inspired the internationally-known quilts made by the women in this rural African-American Alabama community. The photographs have been featured in the traveling exhibition Gee's Bend : The Architecture of the Quilt.

The photographs also have been featured in solo exhibitions at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Myrtle Beach Art Museum in South Carolina. Her work also has been displayed at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., the Seoul Museum of Art in Korea and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Her pictures also are accessible in important photography books like Reflections in Black: A History of African American Photography 1840-1999 by MacArthur genius award winner Deborah Willis.

Clark, who has lived in Maryland since she was 8 years old, is a professor of photography at Coppin State University in Baltimore. She also has served on the faculty of the Maryland Institute College of Art and the education staff of the Baltimore Museum of Art.

She studied at Howard Community College, earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a master's of fine arts from the University of Delaware.