“Lumen Notebook” explores ideas about the natural landscape and our mortal planet through photography’s dynamic lumen process. The series is characterized by a shift away from the indexical nature of the photograph, using a simple, camera-less process that draws out latent color in black & white photo papers. The photographs in this series are all lumen prints. A lumen print is a sun-print or “photogram,” made by exposing black & white photo paper to sunlight. For this work, each paper brand, photo finish and paper type, expired or new, combined with different exposures produces a different spectrum of colors. The papers are then scanned and sometimes re-scanned multiple times. The photo paper is in a constant state of flux and continues to change color and darken with the light of the scanner. The combination of old and new materials and technology and the language of this very simple process is one that has allowed me to further explore ideas around time and the fragile nature of the only world we know.

AMANDA MARCHAND is a Canadian, NY-based photographer and educator. She uses an experimental approach to photography to investigate the natural world and our changing climate. Recent honors: The Hunt Fellowship for Creative Research 2026 at Carnegie Mellon University; PhotoLucida's 2025 Critical Mass TOP 50, Kala 2025-26 Artist Residency; Lenscratch Art & Science Awards 2024 - 1st Place Winner; LensCulture Art Awards 2024 Winner (3rd place Series); the 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Awards 2023; The 2022 Silver List (Silver Eye Center for Photography and Carnegie Mellon); Medium Photo's Second Sight Award 2021; "Curator's Choice - 2nd Place Winner," CENTER's Choice Awards 2015. She is a MacDowell Colony, Hermitage Artist Retreat, and Headlands Center for the Arts Fellow. Books: Marchand's monographs include, This Earthen Door: Emily Dickinson's Herbarium (2024); Nothing Will Ever be the Same Again (2019); and Night Garden (2015) - Datz Press. Her artist books include, 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). 415/514 was published by Edition One Studios (2008). Her novel, without cease the earth faintly trembles (DC Books, 2003) was awarded "Critic's Pick" by NOW Magazine. Exhibitions: Marchand's work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows, including the Brandywine Museum of Art and Datz Museum of Art in South Korea. Her work is in the collections of The Getty Research Institute, the Brandywine Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, Stanford University Library, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Glen Hospital MUHC Collection, the Bolinas Art Museum, and the New York Public Library. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.