Amanda Harman's photography aims to reveal the unseen in the everyday and the ordinary, taking a gesture, an expression and orchestrating it within the frame giving that moment a significance it would not normally possess. Amanda has worked on commissions and projects for galleries and museums and has exhibited widely in the UK and in Europe. Her work is held in a number of collections, including the V & A.

"I was concerned when photographing in schools and homes to create pictures that would show what I found there. Whilst expression and gesture are the key elements in each portrait, the use of props and the subject's surroundings extend the story each image is aiming to tell. These photographs are not intended to be records of individual lives, rather they are informed, guided and influenced by my own experiences of growing up."

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