Amanda Bradley: Notations from Home

Amanda Bradley’s Notations from Home is an ongoing body of work and archive that uses photography as a language, in which the camera becomes a tool for note-taking, discovery, and relationship building. The images encapsulate the sentiments of belonging and home through a long view of landscape across geography and time.

Bradley explores water and land as critical spaces of history, imagination, and memory. The work is deeply rooted in navigating the duality of her sense of identity as a first-generation American, tethered to two lands and moving through the waters between them. Growing up between Miami, FL, and Belize, Bradley is anchored at the intersection of diaspora, migration, and memory, with photography allowing her to build connections across geographies. Her photographs investigate how landscape can function as a visual threshold, embracing movement through time, memory, and belonging. The work ultimately asks: what dictates a memory, and what do individuals attach their own histories to?