Amanda Shopa, PhD

Category: Photography

  • Week 7 of 209 Weeks

    Week 7 of 209 Weeks

    Week 7 of 209 Weeks: “WHETHER YOU LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE / OR LIVE IN DIVIDED CEASELESS REVOLT AGAINST IT / WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE.” —Frank Bidart, “Guilty of Dust” Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Pacem in Terris in Isanti, MN in November or December 2021.

  • Week 6 of 209 Weeks

    Week 6 of 209 Weeks

    Week 6 of 209 Weeks: “It can be overwhelming to witness/experience/take in all of the injustices of the moment; the good news is that they’re all connected. So if your little corner of work involves pulling at one of the threads, you’re helping to unravel the whole damn cloth.” —Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Photo Notes: This photo was…

  • Week 5 of 209 Weeks

    Week 5 of 209 Weeks

    Week 5 of 209 Weeks: “As I listen to them, I hear another whisper from the swaying stand of cattails, from spruce boughs in the wind, a reminder that caring is not abstract.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer. Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Pacem in Terris in Isanti, MN in November–December 2021.

  • Week 4 of 209 Weeks

    Week 4 of 209 Weeks

    Week 4 of 209 Weeks: “resist cultivate joy hold space” Photo Notes: Taken at Pacem in Terris in Nov–Dec 2021.

  • Week 3 of 209 Weeks

    Week 3 of 209 Weeks

    Week 3 of 209 Weeks: “People have been good at imagining the end of the worlds, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.” —Rebecca Solnit Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Pacem in Terris in Isanti, MIN in Nov–Dec 2021. Even though it…

  • Week 2 of 209 Weeks

    Week 2 of 209 Weeks

    Week 2 of 209 Weeks: “The fact that we hope, even though we know what is going on, is what makes us wonderful.” —Arundhati Roy Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Pacem in Terris in Isanti, MN in Nov–Dec 2021. These were the tiniest acorn caps I’d ever seen.

  • Week 1 of 209 Weeks

    Week 1 of 209 Weeks

    Week 1 of 209 Weeks: “Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.” —Neal Shusterman in Unsouled Photo Notes: This photo was taken at Geonsancheon Stream in Jeonju, South Korea in September of October 2018.

  • Where Has All the 4 by 6 Paper Gone?

    As I described in my previous post, there are a lot of moving parts to making a photographic postcard. I thought I had figured out my postcard plan for the 209 Weeks art project—resin coated 4 by 6 paper, RC-friendly mounting tissue, and cardstock that would easily take a rubber stamp. All I needed was…

  • The Moving Parts of a Photography Project

    Back in the 90s, I occasionally sent friends photo postcards. I used stick-on postcard backs, which make the photos a little stiffer and postcard like, or I just drew a vertical line down the back of a regular photo lab photo, addressed it, and threw a stamp on it. Now, thirty years later, I’ve come…