Do you have a room with a better view?

First, to give you a little background on me. My name is A.R. Clark. I am a fine art photographer from Bangor, Maine. This being the state of Stephen King, I have always had a fascination with horror and the general panic of isolation in the wild. Match that with an obsession with vogue covers and here I am today, forever cursed to never take a normal portrait.

The following pictures are excerpts from a book I am releasing in the beginning of October called

Do you have a room with a better view?

It is a collection of portraits showing vulnerability through fabricated desire. Inspired by the confrontational work of Nan Goldin, Andres Serrano, and Nobuyoshi Araki, this is both a meditation on glamour and aesthetics, and a statement on my tremendous fear of human interaction. I took all of these photos in 2019, instructing the models to look through the camera at you, the viewer of these images. At all times, everybody wants to be somewhere else.

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Find A.R. Clark on instagram @northbydowneastphoto and their website here