[1] Clark has said that her time at Inglewood High School taught her about survival as a young woman, citing the violence and the two murders that occurred there.
[3] This outcry extended to her wider work also, with some art dealers saying that they would refuse to handle her photography and Kodak acknowledging that they would not develop her photographs that were considered obscene.
The phrase translates to 'the people with nothing' and addresses the historical confiscation of iwi land across the Mount Taranaki coastline.
[4] The photographs became an important political tool and were presented numerous times in the early 1980s, most significantly for Motunui – Waitara Treaty of Waitangi Claim (Wai-6) to assert iwi as kaitiaki of their ancestral land.
[4] Clark's images were used to show the magnificence of the area and present kai moana as a taonga that brings pride and prestige to the community as one of their last remaining culturally significant environmental assets.
[3] In 1977 Clark, aged 23, was involved in a motorcycle crash which broke her jaw and shattered many bones in her face, leaving her with an inverted eye.