1000 Words’ editor, Tim Clark, is a writer and curator based in London. Together with running the magazine, he is artistic director for Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia, Italy, alongside Walter Guadagnini, director of CAMERA, Torino and Luce Lebart, curator, historian and researcher for the Archive of Modern Conflict.

Clark has previously been involved in a wide range of projects: curatorial advisor for the Discovery section of Photo London 2022 and 2023; adjunct curator on Masculinities: Liberation through Photography (2020-22) at the Barbican Centre London, an exhibition which travelled to Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Les Rencontres d’Arles and FOMU Antwerp; guest curator at the Ci.CLO Bienal 2021 with the exhibition The Horizon is Moving Nearer for the Portuguese Center of Photography, Porto; curator of Mutable: Multiple, Derby QUAD, FORMAT International Photography Festival; and curator of London Art Fair’s Photo50 section with Who’s looking at the family, now? (all 2019).

He has held posts as artistic director of Photo Oxford 2017, together with Greg Hobson, and while associate curator at Media Space, Science Museum, London, he organised Julia Margaret Cameron: Influence and Intimacy (2015) and Gathered Leaves: Photographs by Alec Soth (2015–18), an exhibition which travelled to National Media Museum, Bradford, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FOMU Antwerp and Deichtorhallen Hamburg. He has also curated numerous solo exhibitions of artists’ work including Mónica de Miranda, Simon Roberts, Lebohang Kganye, Raymond Meeks, Noémie Goudal, Jeff Mermelstein, Soham Gupta, Carmen Winant, Hoda Afshar, Guanyu Xu, Seiichi Furuya, Lisa Barnard, Yelena Yemchuk, Helen Sear, Arko Datto and others.

Clark nominates for Prix Pictet, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and C/O Berlin Talent Award, and was recently the president of the jury for Premio Luigi Ghirri. He has contributed essays to exhibition catalogues for the Barbican Centre, London, Archive of Modern Conflict and Lagos Photo Festival, and has written for Financial Times, Foam, Photoworks, TIME, The Eyes and British Journal of Photography.

Clark has guest lectured at various institutions internationally including The Photographers’ Gallery, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Centre Budapest, and Leipzig Museum of Contemporary Art. He has led short courses on photography and curation for The Photographers’ Gallery, Le Bal and Perth Center for Photography, and currently teaches at The Institute of Photography, Falmouth University.