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Photographing The Famous

One Button Press, One Camera Shutter Click, and You Get This:

by Jemma Dodd | Olympus Magazine | Issue 59

Photo by Debbi Clark

Debbi Clark has had work featured in Vogue, Homme, and Tatler, photographed the likes of Kate Moss and Damian Lewis and set up her own charity. We speak to the woman who’s capable of it all…

When did you become interested in photography?
It was when I was studying fashion and design at St. Martin’s College when I fell in love with photography. I used to photograph landscapes, capturing patterns in trees, flowers, grass picturing shapes, shadows and formations in clouds. I became so obsessed with how fascinating it was playing with light that I wanted to learn the technical side to really bring my images to life. I then went on to LCP and studied photography and printing. My first camera was the Olympus PEN-F 35mm film camera, which I still love and use.

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Helen McCrory On Her Passion For Charity Work

Giving Unprivileged Youth Access to Arts

By Woman and Home | October 23, 2017

LONDON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 22: Helen McCrory (wearing Antonio Berardi) and Debbi Clark Host A Master Class Chocolate Course for the Sir Hubert Von Herkomer Arts Foundation at The Savoy Hotel on October 22, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

There are a lot of reasons why we’re fans of Helen McCrory – her talent as an actress, her wit and her honesty – but one that gets less recognition is her dedication to giving back. In her role as Patron of the Sir Hubert Von Herkomer Arts Foundation, Helen is devoted to helping provide children with a gateway to the arts, which is why this weekend she joined Savoy Executive Chef Ludwig Hely and Debbi Clark, CEO of the Sir Hubert Von Herkomer Arts Foundation, as they delivered a chocolate and cake decorating masterclass to children supported by the Foundation.

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Peaky Blinders star Helen McCrory: ‘Actors are just people who can’t write their own words’

Helen McCrory Talks Peaky Blinders, Deep Blue Sea and Her Charity

Helen McCrory & husband Damian Lewis pictured with Debbi Clark, chief executive of the charity. Pic
Helen McCrory & husband Damian Lewis pictured with Debbi Clark, chief executive of the charity. 

What does 1920s Birmingham gangster drama Peaky Blinders and an American western have in common?

More than you might think, according to Tufnell Park actress Helen McCrory, who’s back on our screens as the hard-as-nails Aunt Polly in the third series of the hit BBC show.

“Something that the Americans have understood is that they have mythologised their people.

“A bunch of cow herders going across the west are turned by John Wayne into a western. The gangster by [Martin] Scorsese has been turned into the hero.

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