Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey

Biography

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Amanda Marchand is a Canadian artist and educator based in New York whose
work explores the natural world through an experimental approach to
photography. Her practice often bridges science and art, using alternative
processes to create contemplative, light-driven works.
Marchand’s recent accolades include the LensCulture Awards (2024), London
Photography Awards (2024), Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (2023), and
recognition on the Silver List (2022). She has held fellowships at prestigious
institutions such as the Hermitage Artist Retreat, MacDowell Colony, Mass MoCA,
and Headlands Center for the Arts.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions. This
Earthen Door debuted at the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum and will be
featured at the Brandywine Museum of Art in 2025. Marchand has published three
monographs with Datz Press: This Earthen Door: Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium
(2024), Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again (2019), and Night Garden (2015). Her
artist books include The World is Astonishing with You in It: A 21st Century Field
Guide to the Birds, Ferns and Wildflowers (2022).
Leah Sobsey is an artist, Associate Professor of Photography, curator, and Director
of the Gatewood Gallery at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her
multidisciplinary practice spans photography, nature and science, design,
installation, and textiles, often exploring the intersection of art and ecology.
Sobsey’s recent exhibitions include the Huntington Museum (CA), Photofairs NYC
(2023), the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum, and the Harvard Museum of Natural
History, with upcoming presentations at the Brandywine Museum of Art (2025) and
the Gregg Museum (In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers). Her project This Earthen Door
was featured at Paris Photo with Datz Press.
Her publications include This Earthen Door: Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium (Datz
Press, 2024), Collections: Birds, Bones and Butterflies (2016), and Bull City Summer
(2013). Sobsey’s work is held in private and public collections across the U.S.,
including the Huntington Library, North Carolina Museum of Art, Cassilhaus
Collection, Credit Suisse, Duke University Hospital, Fidelity Investments, and the
Microsoft Collection. She has participated in numerous artist residencies, including
Virginia Center for the Arts, Dumbarton Oaks, Penland, the National Park System,
Hambidge, and Habla Mexico.