Clare Parsons Photography

b. 1983


Clare Parsons is a photographer currently based out of Bozeman, Montana. She utilizes photography to find the whimsical in the ordinary. Her grandfather used to tell her, "It's easy to fall in love with someone's qualities, but it's true love when you fall in love with one's faults." Most people would say that she has applied this to all areas of her life, but none more so than with photography.


Clare moved around most of her life. Her family never put down roots and you can see in her work that this nomadic lifestyle has definitely added to her search for moments of permanence. She lived in her imagination as a child, reading constantly and constructing worlds of airy constancy and outlandish characters. There is definitely a connection between her work and the ephemeral qualities that are just behind the veil of reality.


She has an affinity for finding the things "hidden in plain sight."