About

Born in 1984, Clay grew up along the tidal rivers of eastern Virginia, a landscape that has remained the center of gravity for his work. He photographs with large- and medium-format cameras and prints by hand in the darkroom, in silver gelatin and, increasingly, platinum.

His pictures move between the documentary and the elegiac — family, land, and the residue of ordinary life — and are unified less by subject than by a quality of attention: long looking, slow exposure, an interest in what time leaves behind.

Clay studied at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts and has held residencies at the Hambidge Center and the Vermont Studio Center. His work is held in private collections in the United States and Europe, and is represented by Greer & Hale (New York) and Atelier Voss (London). He lives and works in Tidewater, Virginia.