[1][2] She makes, as David Campany puts it, "black-and-white photographs that would be equally at home in an art gallery, the offices of a scientific institute, or the archive of a dark cult.
In 2019 she was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
[7] Her first major solo exhibition was Clare Strand Photography and Video at Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany in 2009.
David Campany has written that "she is a photographer whose primary context is the medium itself and the habits of seeing, knowing, and picturing that have formed around it.
[1] Her work has been described as surreal,[16][17] having a "paranormal, scientific atmosphere", a narrative mystery, inspired by magic (illusion) and vernacular photography.