Amanda Marchand is an award-winning, Canadian, NY-based photographer and educator. Her work uses an experimental approach to photography to explore the natural world and our changing climate.
Honors include: The 2024 Lensculture Art Awards Winner, 3rd place Series; The London Photography Awards 2024, honorable mention; the 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Awards, 2023 honorable mention; 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 - 3rd Place Series; Klompching Gallery’s FRESH 2019, Honorable Mention; “Curator's Choice - 2nd Place Winner,” CENTER’s Choice Awards 2015; and the San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Fellowship Award.
Marchand’s monographs published by Datz Press include, This Earthen Door: Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium (2024); Nothing Will Ever be the Same Again (2019); and Night Garden (2015). She has also published the artist books: 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). Her series 415/514 was published by Edition One Studios (2009). Her early novel, without cease the earth faintly trembles (DC Books, 2003) was awarded "Critic's Pick" by NOW Magazine.
Awarded more than a dozen artist residencies, Marchand is a MacDowell Colony, Hermitage Artist Retreat, and Headlands Center for the Arts Fellow. Her photographs and books are among the collections of, The Getty Research Institute, San Jose Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, Stanford University Library, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows. A permanent installation of her work is on view at the MUHC Glen Hospital in Montreal. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is the mother of two teenage boys.