Lot 6

After emigrating to Toronto from Harlem in 1968, Clark began making photographs of street scenes as a way to situate herself in a new and unknown environment, seeking a community similar to the one she had left behind. “I walked around looking for imagery that brought me home or had me feel as if I was home,” she remembers. “I didn’t know what I was looking for. I would just see people on Bathurst Street sitting on their stoops or their verandas and this, to me, is community, so I would photograph them and they seemed to love it, so I kept it up.”