Jasmine Rayna Clark is the daughter of two United States Marines and grew up in a military community in Twentynine Palms, California. She received her MFA in Photography in 2016. In 2017, Clark was awarded Duke University’s 2017 Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Award in the Award for Emerging Documentarian for her project, After Eisenhower. Clark identifies as African American and queer, and is currently a teaching artist and an adjunct photography professor based in Chicago, IL.