Yani Clarke is a documentary art photographer based in Lismore, Northern Rivers, New South Wales, Australia, on Bundjalung Country. Her work focuses on uncovering raw, untold stories from society's margins. With a poetic yet unflinching approach, Yani captures resilience, hardship, and transformation. Her evocative photography has earned critical acclaim, with Bruce Gilden praising her ability to "tell the entire story of a person's life in a single image."

Her photographs have been published in VICE, F-Stop Magazine, Empty Kingdom, and Pearl Press. She was a semi-finalist for the Head On Portrait Prize and the Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women (2016) and was nominated for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass (2016 & 2018). In 2024, she was a finalist for both the Perth Centre for Photography Award and Women Street Photographers. Her work will be exhibited at the São Paulo Photo Festival and Paranapiacaba Photo Festival in Brazil (2025), and she will present her series LUCKY ROCKET at the Head On Photo Festival in November 2025.

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View fullsize 7 SLEEPS til LUCKY ROCKET launches 🚀 It’s been a whirlwind few weeks and the storm’s finally starting to settle — I’m about to hang my first solo show, and I’m genuinely blown away by how many people have helped make it
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View fullsize 🚀 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 🚀 LUCKY ROCKET is showing at @elevator_ari as part of the @headonphotofest 2025 Open Program. Come celebrate my first ever solo show — mostly shot on film and printed in the darkroom with @sandyprints. I first stumbled up
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View fullsize Yesterday, police estimated 90 000+ people poured onto Sydney Harbour Bridge for the March for Humanity, organised by @palestineactiongroup. In relentless rain the crowd—families, union banners, and the crimson-veiled @redrebelbrigade—ca
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View fullsize What do you see? HERE // STILL: An abandoned home, purchased by the NSW Government hit by the 2022 Northern Floods, still showcases the aftermath of the climate-induced disaster on a bedroom wall two years on. See more from STILL HERE via my WEBSI
View fullsize An abandoned home, purchased by the NSW Government hit by the 2022 Northern Floods, still showcases the aftermath of the climate-induced disaster on a bedroom wall two years on. See more from STILL HERE via my WEBSITE link 🔗
View fullsize I met her like this, she came from the fog, all I had was my phone. We made this photo. I asked her to write a poem about the floods. Thank you Tumeilia for these words… This land grieves, this land mourns Streets now deserted are now flood s
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View fullsize Still here. Still waiting. This home in the Lismore CBD was completely submerged in the 2022 Northern Rivers Floods. Many in the Northern Rivers are waiting for the government to deliver the promised $1.5 billion for flood recovery. With house rai