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| Northern Goshhawk (Child) (1st generation) (Illford MG V RC deluxe), 2020, unique archival pigment print collage, 22" x 16.5", edition of 3, price upon request |
photo-eye is excited to welcome Amanda Marchand to the Photographer's Showcase and feature her brilliant series The World is Astonishing with You in it: A 21st Century Field Guide to the Birds, Ferns and Wildflowers.
In this body of work, Marchand examines the shifting environment through the impermanence of the cameraless lumen process. The suggestive photograms are made using vintage field guides from her library, and each references an endangered species described in the guides.
Recently, as part of our video series photo-eye Conversations, Gallery Director Anne Kelly interviewed Amanda Marchand. They discussed her photographic practice, the process of creating The World is Astonishing with You in it, and other bodies of work, like The Lumen Circle Project. Watch this enlightening conversation below or on Vimeo.
"These are lumen prints from a larger, ongoing series Lumen Notebook. In these sun-prints, I explore ideas about our changing environment through the temporality of photography’s lumen process. These images are all made with expired and current black & white photo papers. This work employs three field guides — North American birds, ferns and wildflowers. I mark/expose the photographic paper, making one mark per quadrant or half, with an edge of the respective Field Guide book. Each photograph references an endangered or disappearing species (bird, fern, wildflower).
I have been making the work in nature, at different residencies, and my family's Canadian cabin, where the birds and ferns and wildflowers abound. This is a personal meditation — as each paper shifts color, slowly or quickly, in the variegated light of the sun."
— Amanda Marchand
The Lumen Circle Project - Work Statement
2017-2020: The Lumen Circle Project
comprises an ongoing series of collaborative sun prints, made as a
response to turbulent times. I invite collaborators to mark our time
together on the planet, as we sit in silent meditation. We sit on
photo-sensitive paper and for the duration of the sitting, the sunlight
marks the paper leaving a lighter imprint where there is a human form.  |
| The First Lumen Circle at SFAI © Amanda Marchand, 2017 |
These large-scale images are titled "Lumen" prints, taken from lumen printing, the art of making simple images with the sun and photo paper. Everyone who participates signs the work and is gifted a small print.
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| Print collage from the Lumen Circle Project © Amanda Marchand |
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first Lumen Circle took place on February 4, 2017, in San Francisco. The
second Lumen Circle took place March 16, 2017, on Manasota Key,
Florida. The third Lumen Circle took place July 2019, in Seoul, Korea.
Books by Amanda Marchand:
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| Amanda's Marchand Studio: Test Strips |
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For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Patricia Martin, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202