TITLE: Infrared Landscapes

Amanda Kleinman, Infrared Landscapes, April 2017

This is what happens when a nature photographer decides to experiment with black and white infrared film at 3pm in the hills above Hickory Lane, adjacent to the Lilac Research Fields of the US National Arboretum. With her uncle's old Pentax 67 medium format analog camera Amanda Kleinman captures a still landscape loaded with the rapid movement of black and white contrast. The effect of these infrared landscapes is similar to a Jackson Pollock drip painting with light instead of paint covering the surface. The eye registers movement and stillness.

Amanda Kleinman is a volunteer photographer for the US National Arboretum and for the last 3 years she has provided the staff with both specimen documentation and beauty shots. But on her own time, as in these infrared landscapes, she shoots for pleasure on film.

AUTHOR: Amanda Kleinman (United States)

Amanda Kleinman was born and raised in Montgomery County, MD. She moved to Washington, DC in the early 1990’s while attending college and became a prolific member of the art and music community. She toured with her original rock band, The Apes, from 1999 to 2008 and showed drawings, sculpture, and books in a wide range of informal and formal gallery settings. Amanda dove head first into photography in 2012. She has created a rich body of work in the night photography and garden photography realm- and does volunteer photography for both the U.S. National Arboretum and U.S. Botanical Gardens. She has won significant awards in the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition for the last 3 consecutive years, winning first place in 2015. Since 2010, Amanda has been employed by the Corcoran School. Currently, she is the academic advisor for BFA students at the Corcoran School of Art, George Washington University and is also the keyboardist in electronic rock act “Heavy Breathing”.