Amy Li is an American photographer and artist. She was born during the winter of 1988 in downtown Manhattan and was raised in Philadelphia. Her first love was drawing. She has a BFA degree in Photography from the University of the Arts. After completing her studies, she moved to New York to pursue freelance opportunities. In 2014, Amy was a part of the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center’s 5th Annual Contemporary Photography Exhibition where Brian Clamp and the late Mary Ellen Mark juried the show. She currently lives in the Bedford-Stuyvesant/Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York and is working on a long-term personal project set in Vancouver, BC. My work investigates the dualities between death and memory and how they are situated in everyday scenarios, ranging from portraiture, landscapes and objects. These “situations” (as I like to call them) are completely devoid of nostalgia. Nostalgia implies that there is a personal narrative involved, along with a reference in time. My intent is to create photographs that are timeless and meaningful but without constructing a singular …
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