Amanda Marchand’s ongoing series, “Lumen Prints” is the result of collaborative photo projects that are inspired by her recent artist book and series, Because the Sky.  At a variety of locations, Marchand invites visitors and passersby to form a meditation circle, sitting on a grid of photo sensitive papers, to create a large-scale lumen print using the human form. Her timely project combines photography, meditation and poetry to acknowledge the importance of community strength in the context of our turbulent times.

A native of Montreal, Amanda Marchand lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001, followed by a Graduate Fellowship Residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2002. Marchand is a MacDowell Colony Fellow (Petersborough, NH) and recently completed residencies at the Hermitage Artist Retreat, FL; the Studios at MASS MoCA; and Arteles Creative Center in Finland. Her photographs have been recognized with awards and exhibitions at institutions including San Jose Museum of Art (CA), Datz Museum of Art (Korea), Palo Alto Art Center (Palo Alto, CA), Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe, NM) and The Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO). Central to her practice are limited edition artist books which are in the collections of the J Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA), New York Public Library (NY), Stanford University Library, (Palo Alto, CA) and the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University (New Haven, CT).