BIOGRAPHY - D J Clark

D J Clark is a contract multimedia reporter for China Daily, Director of Visual Journalism at the Asia Center for Journalism and Course leader on the MA International Multimedia Journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University (in collaboration with the University of Bolton, UK). He also researches and writes about visual journalism as a vehicle for social change, the subject that drives both his journalistic and academic work. DJ runs visual journalism workshops throughout the world most recently for Canon in China and the Philippines, The British Council in Croatia, Mozambique and Vietnam and World Press Photo in the Philippines and across Africa. In 2008 he gave a keynote speech at the World Press Photo Awards on the growth of Majority World Photojournalism based on a PhD he completed in 2009 at the University of Durham that focused on photojournalism as a tool for social change in the Developing World.

D J Clark graduated from Lancaster University in 1984 and went on to work as a photojournalist. In 1989 he moved to Ramallah, Palestine, where he worked as an international wire photographer for the following two years.

Returning to the UK at the end of 1991 he established Folly, an agency producing still and moving images for aid agencies. Folly developed into a public media arts centre and continues to thrive. DJ started lecturing in Photography, first at Lancaster University and then as course leader on the BA Photography and Video degree at The University of Bolton, In 2005 he set up a new MA in Photography that ran for four years in Bolton, UK and Dalian, China.

D J Clark speaking at the WPP Awards

On assignment in Siberia