About the exhibition:

Speck Series is an ongoing collection of photographs I’ve built, and am building, since 2017. I love watching people interact with the landscape almost as much as I enjoy being surrounded by nature myself. We’re clamoring for group selfies, staring off on our own, lost in thought or simply lost. The ongoing “Speck Series” highlights how humans act when we’re surrounded with that natural beauty of what we consider picture perfect views. Working on this series started as a challenge I set for myself; I was used to making portraits of people I know, up close and personal, so playing with negative space and isolating strangers in the frame have worked a new muscle.

These photos are works of creative nonfiction, for sure. Maybe poetry, but absolutely not nonfiction. There are moments of stretching the truth, stretching the skies, but I don’t want to deceive anyone. I believe the world is completely wild, but in that are moments that can remind us we’re just specks.

Speck Series will be on view on the 5th floor of Atria Center City and is unfortunately not open to visitors. The work, however, will be for sale through our website and a walkthrough video tour will be made available once the exhibition is installed.

ABOUT THE Artist:

Amanda is a digital photographer currently living and working in Philadelphia, PA. In 2019, she graduated from Carleton College in Minnesota, where she studied photography and art history. Including negative space in her photos allows her subjects to breathe in the scenes, and layering images to show the passage of time and movement are themes of her current work. Her photographs have most notably been shown at Praxis Photo Center in Minneapolis, MN, the Cleveland Print Room in Cleveland, OH, and at Da Vinci Art Alliance and Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens in Philadelphia, PA. Amanda is influenced by the work of Alma Haser, Ellen Crane, and Cubist paintings.