Claire Harbage

Claire Harbage is a documentary storyteller. She completed her graduate work in photography at Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication. Currently teaching at the Maine Media Workshops & College, Claire is based partially in Rockport, ME and sometimes in Washington DC. She has received grants for previous photographic and multimedia projects and has been featured on Burn Magazine, NPR and Bird in Flight, among other publications. Claire is the editor of PROCESS – A Journal of Slow Photographic Methods, a limited-edition, bi-annual publication by Obscura Press. Claire’s work explores human nature and change. She is interested in understanding how the strengths and weaknesses of people will shape our world in years to come.

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Evidence of the tangled web of human lives lays over this earth. From the things that connect us, to the things we leave behind, every element of humanity creates a complex interaction with the natural environment. As we continuously build, grow, live and die the landscape of the world changes. People have developed control over the land around us. The right of way belongs to power and human creations instead of nature. This body of work explores elements of the everyday dominance of humankind over the natural world.

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To view more of Claire’s work, please visit her website.