AMANDA MARCHAND is a Canadian, NY-based photographer and educator. She uses an experimental approach to photography to investigate the natural world and our changing climate.
Recent honors: The 2024 Lenscratch Art & Science Awards - 1st Place Winner; LensCulture Art Awards 2024 - Winner (3rd place Series); The London Photography Awards 2024; the 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Awards 2023; The 2022 Silver List (Silver Eye Center for Photography and Carnegie Mellon); Medium Photo’s Second Sight Award 2021; Photo Lucida’s Critical Mass Top 50, 2021; the 2019 International LensCulture Art Awards, Winner (2nd Place Series); “Curator's Choice - 2nd Place Winner,” CENTER’s Choice Awards 2015.
Marchand’s monographs include, This Earthen Door: Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium (2024); Nothing Will Ever be the Same Again (2019); and Night Garden (2015) - Datz Press. Her artist books include, The World is Astonishing with You in it: A 21st Century Field Guide to the Birds, Ferns and Wildflowers (2022); The Book of Hours (2018); Because the Sky (2017). 415/514 was published by Edition One Studios (2008). Her novel, without cease the earth faintly trembles (DC Books, 2003) was awarded "Critic's Pick" by NOW Magazine.
Marchand’s work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows. She is a MacDowell Colony, Hermitage Artist Retreat, and Headlands Center for the Arts Fellow. Her work has been published in “The Marginalian,” “Lenscratch,” “ARTnews,” “lensculture,” “Fraction Magazine,” and “Aint’ Bad Magazine.” It has been collected by The Getty Research Institute, San Jose Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, Stanford University Library, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Glen Hospital MUHC Collection, the Bolinas Art Museum, and the NY Public Library. She is represented by Traywick Contemporary, Koslov Larsen, Rick Wester Fine Art, and through photo-eye Gallery’s Photographer’s Showcase. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is the mother of two boys.
