Amanda Zackem

Artist Statement

I’m a person who believes in flow. I allow things to happen as they happen within time and space, while paying attention the moment occurring in front of me. These are the three elements I find most important in any photograph. Without these three elements the work is missing something. I am most satisfied when I find life within the frame and I believe my work to be very quiet, glandular and organic. I believe photography is energy not just an art form.

The world moves too fast, and within this fast paced culture details are lost and quality diminishes. Today most photographs are manipulated, censored, or digitally fixed, taking away from what the whole purpose of a photograph really is, which is to find the natural beginning. I shoot film because it’s a real object, as opposed to a digital image that becomes trapped in a computer until it eventually dies.

Mentored by photographer/filmmaker Adolfo Doring, I’ve learned how to keep photography at that un-touched level where simplicity meets observation and leads to thought.

Resume

Amanda Zackem lives and works in New York.

PHOTOGRAPHY

2008
Little Red Art Auction, New York, NY.

2007
Nulu Gallery, Louisville, KT, group show

2007
Little Red Art Auction, New York, NY.

2006
Present Leonard Street Book Project. New York, NY.

2006
Little Red Art Auction, New York, NY.

FILM

2007
Blind Spot, New York, NY.
Feature Length Documentary, Producer

2007
‘The Idiots’ by Republic of Loose, New York, NY
Music video, Producer

2006
The Trial of the St. Patrick’s Four, New York, NY
Feature Length Documentary, Producer

2006
Got Stem Cells?, New York, NY
Feature Length Documentary, Production Manager

2006
The Line, New York, NY
Short Film, Director, Cinematographer, Screenwriter

2006
Festival, New York, NY
Short Film, Cinematographer, Screenwriter, Editor

EDUCATION

2003
BA Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.