Amanda Falker is a creative artist from Western New York. Her work has appeared in gallery shows across the state, including with the Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Revolution Gallery, The Hurt Factory and The Crucible Art Collective.
Born and raised in the rolling farmlands of the Finger Lakes Region, she began creating photos at a very early age. Her first camera was a 110mm, gifted from her grandmother, Joan. As the documentarian of the family, Joan amassed a voluminous amount of photographs through her lifetime, and passed the hobby-turned-career on to Amanda.
After graduation, Amanda joined the Marines. The armed forces allowed her the ability to travel across the states, and she continued to hone her visual story-telling skills through her job as a military videographer. She landed in the Southern California desert, where she developed a love of a much different landscape from the idyllic lakes back home.
Eventually she returned to New York, continuing on with her love of photography, painting, and creative arts. Currently she resides on a farm, where she cultivates numerous types of plants that she dries and presses to use in her creative works. She has branched out into multi-media sculpture projects, and is in the beginning stages of her most recent body of work, Mother Wound.
You’ll find her work heavily influenced by the surrounding flora & fauna of the New England area.