About

Amanda Lockhart is a Dorset based photographer who specialises in black and white reportage style photography for books and exhibition.

Her first book, The Art of The Chase, a collection of hunting photographs, was published by Adelphi in 2005, on the day of the hunting ban. Its first print run sold out within the first year, and the second print run the year following. Since then it has been out of print. For this project, she spent five years, whenever time allowed, photographing over eighty pack of hounds around the British Isles and Ireland, in some of the more remoter areas of the countryside, concentrating on the rural backdrops, the traditions and trades that have evolved around hunting, and the people from whom this contentious sport is not just a pastime but a way of life.

Following that project, Amanda collaborated with two friends, the photographer Sim Canetty Clarke and the writer Susannah Frieze to produce a book of wedding photography, Bride Ideas and Frock-ups, a book of wedding tips and slips, published by Bene Factum.

In 2010, Amanda produced The Art of the Race, a collection of behind-the-scenes pictures of horse-racing, under the aegis of the Jockey Club. “I am very emotional about this sport” wrote the inimitable commentator Sir Peter O’Sullevan “And I could have wept with delight at this book”

Amanda is currently working on a project documenting farmers of Rare and Native Breeds up and down the UK with the aim of producing a series of pictures for exhibition (and thereafter a book) - reportage vignettes of each farmer, telling their story - the landscape they operate in, the beasts they farm, the produce they make, the shows they go to and also of the related tradespeople - tanners, weavers, butchers, cheesemakers etc (the ones who specialise in making really good products in traditional ways).