Amanda Lancour

Tell the reader's who Amanda Lancour is?
Amanda Lancour is 28 years old recently relocated from Wisconsin to NYC. Greatly encouraged by my mentors to pursue my passion of fashion and fine art photography in New York. I arrived just this summer. The shooting opportunities are endless. Am I so excited to be here! From Milwaukee to backstage NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion Week shows from 9am until 12am. It was absolutely fabulous.

How did you become a photographer?
Always the kid with a camera. I remember as a little girl begging my parents to buy me a camera. Then being so ecstatic to open my Christmas present and to finally have one! It was point and shoot but forever on I always had a camera with me.

If you had a choice, what type of photography would you do?
Shooting fashion and editorial photography is my passion. I absolutely love every minute from my first conceptual conversation with the client, designer, director to constantly contacting refreshing the ideas building up to the final execution of the project.

I was looking at your portfolio on you website and I find it amazing/refreshing. How do you come up with interesting scenery? What is your inspiration?
My inspiration is constant in art and the world around me. I draw upon mentors, art history books, and contemporaries. As I have taught at universities and technical schools my students inspire through conversation about art/photography and their imagery as well as looking at masters works.

A lot photographers can only do digital photography. Have you ever experiment with dark room photography? If you have, what do you like about it and do you have your own dark room? If you have not, why not?
I began with darkroom photography and spent many days in the darkroom as a student developing and printing. In college I was a lab technician and would stay during the holidays so to have the darkroom to myself and would literally sleep there. I shoot mostly digital now but still enjoy shooting fine art with my film camera.

Did you go to school for photography?
Yes. I obtained my bachelors degree from the University Wisconsin Oshkosh and attended technical workshops at the New England School of Photography, Boston MA

Is there anything you would like to share with the readers?
Follow your passion. Believe it. That is what it is.