Born in 1986, Jasmine Clark is the daughter of two United States Marines and grew up in a military community in Twentynine Palms, California (MCAGCC). Clark received her BFA in Photography from California State University, Long Beach and her MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2016. Jasmine Clark’s large-scale color photographs probe the role of the military in the American landscape. Her work examines middle America and communities surrounding military bases and the ways in which American cultural identity manifests when its symbols are conflated with complex and polarizing issues such as religion, race, class, patriotism and the 2nd amendment.