Amanda McKeever

Amanda McKeever, a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design, is a photographer based in Burlington, VT. She focuses on traditional film photography, cyanotypes, and alternative photography. Her work explores the many facets of human emotion. Amanda delves into the familiar feelings of melancholy and nostalgia in the personal subjects she chooses to photograph. Pensive sadness with no obvious cause and a sentimental longing and affection for the past is celebrated in Amanda’s work. She focuses on the deep valleys of sadness that can simultaneously coexist alongside the high mountains of joy.

 

In 2020, while living in Texas and dealing with deep bouts of grief, she began creating a series of cyanotypes entitled “Sunny” as a way to rediscover the joy in the process of making without a focus on the finished piece. The dichotomy of sensitizing paper in a cool dark room and utilizing the hot blinding Texas summer sun was unknowingly symbolic of her rediscovering the light after the deep dark days of sadness. “Yesterday my life was filled with rain.” (Bobby Hebb)