Clara Kraus

Clara Kraus is a Hawai‘i-born, New York-based photographer and BFA candidate at Parsons School of Design. Her work often blends self-portraiture with constructed or natural environments to explore themes of memory, identity, and place.

Rooted in a tactile, hands-on process, she uses the camera to examine relationships—between herself and loved ones, between body and place, between the truth of a moment and the fiction of how we remember it. She is particularly interested in how identity is shaped through connection, and how performance can surface emotional truths.

Her work holds space for contradiction: presence and absence, love and pain, memory and imagination. Through image-making, she explores not only what she remembers, but how she remembers—and how those recollections speak to where she comes from and who she is still becoming.

Clara is digitizing Nina Berman’s project Return to Vietnam from 1987.

This program is possible thanks to the vision and support of Fujifilm.
Our Digitization System was made possible by a 2024 Capital Grant by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.