Lincoln Clarkes is an award-winning photographer (National Magazine Awards, silver; Western Magazine Awards, gold http://www.westernmagazineawards.ca/index.cfm?ci_id=1499&la_id=1), who has published two books, Heroines (Anvil Press) http://www.anvilpress.com, an epic photographic documentary of the addicted

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 women of Vancouver

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’s Downtown Eastside

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, which won the Vancouver Book Award, and Views, a retrospective

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 of his works (Universal/Northern Electric) http://www.northern-electric.ca.

Peace Arch Entertainment

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 produced a one-hour documentary film

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 about Clarkes' Heroines project called, Heroines: A Photographic Obsession, http://www.peacearch.com/film_details.asp?BusinessUnitID=&ProjectID={D32F3E43-3CDB-47BB-B8A5-9C8100DC6462} which has aired on BRAVO! and Women's Television Network and has screened at numerous festivals

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Clarkes has had solo exhibitions in Vancouver

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, Toronto

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 and Seattle. His photographs have been used in the feature film

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s Everything's Gone Green

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, by Douglas Coupland

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, directed by Paul Fox, and Atom Egoyan

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's The Sweet Hereafter

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