AMANDA ANNAND

Amanda is a Canadian-born visual ethnographer. Having grown up in a town of less than 200 people in northern Alberta, she's comfortable in small and unusual places. She has worked for indigenous groups, government, co-management boards and industry within the context of resource management and consultation. With a Masters in Intercultural and International Communications, her academic and documentary work focuses on themes relating to culture and connection to place.

Photography has been a lifelong passion for Amanda, but it wasn’t until she started her Masters in 2016 that she began to cultivate her use of documentary photography. In 2018, she was named one of the 100 Top Emerging Photographers in the Flash Forward competition by the Magenta Foundation. She currently resides in Yellowknife, NWT, where she hopes to add more regional diversity to Canadian documentary voice and is the Producer of the Yellowknife-based Far North Photo Festival.