Heroines: The Photographs of Lincoln Clarkes

Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award The Heroines Series is an epic photographic documentary of the addicted women of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. In 1997, fashion and portrait photographer Lincoln Clarkes turned his lens away from the world of glamour and began documenting the dire circumstances being endured by the marginalized women living and working on the streets of Vancouver's most troubled neighbourhood. The Heroines Series consists of over 400 portraits of addicted women in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside, and has garnered national and international media attention. Peace Arch Entertainment produced a one-hour documentary film, Heroines: A Photographic Obsession, earlier this year for BRAVO! and Women's Television Network. The film quote;is a study in pain and intimacy, artistic expression fuelled by passion and moral outragequote; and is accompanied by original poems written and narrated by Susan Musgrave. The documentary opened the Leipzig Documentary Film Festival and has been screened at several other festivals since its premiere in June of 2001.Patricia Canning is the author of 'Heroines: The Photographs of Lincoln Clarkes', published 2002 under ISBN 9781895636451 and ISBN 1895636450.