London Amara: The Alchemy of Spirit and Light

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London Amara

Mother and Son, ambrotype original, archival pigment print, 50 in. x 40 in.

London Amara’s work in painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography is united by her interest in the human form and in our oft-conflicted relationship with the natural world. Currently, Amara is pursuing large-format collodion wet plate photography, working on site in a portable darkroom to produce images of the forests of Florida, California, and British Columbia, and intimate portraits of family and friends. Inspired in part by the work of contemporary photographers Sally Mann and Justine Kurland, she imparts her images with a melancholic romanticism born of nostalgic longing for my childhood in wooded rural Ohio, and offers her subjects as representatives of an ancient wisdom, possessors of a unique sensitivity to the endless cycle of life, death, and decay.