Holiday, Atlanta. GA, 2016
Verso archival print
20 x 24 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP,
For Sale: $2500
16 x 20 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2000
Stephen, Appling. GA, 2017
Verso archival print
20 x 24 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2500
16 x 20 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2000
Amir, Atlanta. GA, 2016
Verso archival print
20 x 24 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2500
16 x 20 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2000
Mick, Atlanta. GA, 2016
Verso archival print
20 x 24 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2500
16 × 20 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2000
Alex, Appling. GA, 2017
Verso Archival Print
20 x 24 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2500
16 x 20 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2000
Rowan, Appling. GA, 2016
Verso archival print
20 x 24 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2500
16 x 20 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2000
Oyle, Atlanta GA, 2016
Verso archival print
20 x 24 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2500
16 x 20 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2000
Shawn, Atlanta. GA, 2016
Verso archival print
20 x 24 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2500
16 x 20 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2000
Jacob, Appling. GA, 2016
Verso archival print
20 x 24 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2500
16 x 20 in -
Editions 1-5, AP1, AP2 of 5 + 2AP
For Sale: $2000
19/32 (Not the Man I Once Was), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
24 x 20 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
40 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
50 x 40 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
Portrait of a man 19 years into his Life without Parole (solitary) sentence where the ratio of years spent in prison to years alive determined the level of image loss.
Three Years out of a Life Sentence (Sky), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal serving a life without the possibility of parole sentence in a maximum security prison (solitary confinement) described being able to see the sky through a metal grated skylight in the small concrete exercise area he was permitted in by himself for one hour a day. The additional 23 hours were spent in isolation. This image was constructed out of his description of the open sky he wished to see.
Four Years out of a Life Sentence (Sky), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal serving a life without the possibility of parole sentence in a maximum security prison (solitary confinement) described being able to see the sky through a metal grated skylight in the small concrete exercise area he was permitted in by himself for one hour a day. The additional 23 hours were spent in isolation. This image was constructed out of his description of the open sky he wished to see.
Fourteen Years out of a Life Sentence (Sky), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal serving a life without the possibility of parole sentence in a maximum security prison (solitary confinement) described being able to see the sky through a metal grated skylight in the small concrete exercise area he was permitted in by himself for one hour a day. The additional 23 hours were spent in isolation. This image was constructed out of his description of the open sky he wished to see.
Nineteen Years out of a Life Sentence (Sky), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal serving a life without the possibility of parole sentence in a maximum security prison (solitary confinement) described being able to see the sky through a metal grated skylight in the small concrete exercise area he was permitted in by himself for one hour a day. The additional 23 hours were spent in isolation. This image was constructed out of his description of the open sky he wished to see.
Prison Food Tray acquired from Ebay, 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of TEN in two sizes:
16 x 20 ins - Edition of 5 - $2,000
20 x 24 ins - Edition of 5 - $2,500
3/32 (Not the Man I Once Was), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
24 x 20 in - Edition of 5 - $2,500
40 x 30 in - Edition of 5 - $4,000
50 x 40 in - Edition of 5 - $5,500
Four Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Forest), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal 13 years into his death row sentence describes a childhood memory of taking refuge in the forest throughout his youth.
Seven Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Forest), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal 13 years into his death row sentence describes a childhood memory of taking refuge in the forest throughout his youth.
Nine Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Forest), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 30 in - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 45 in - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40x60 in - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal 13 years into his death row sentence describes a childhood memory of taking refuge in the forest throughout his youth.
Fictional Library, 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of TEN in two sizes:
16 x 20 ins - Edition of 5 - $2,000
20 x 24 ins - Edition of 5 - $2,500
26/44 (Not the Man I Once Was), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
24 x 20 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
40 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
50 x 40 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
Portrait of a man 26 years into his death row sentence, where the ratio of years spent in prison to years alive determined the level of image loss
Four Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Ocean), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal 26 years into his sentence in a landlocked prison, described an early childhood memory that haunted him, of walking further and further into the ocean during low tide until the sudden depth and darkness before him overcame him with fear.
Ten Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Ocean), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:;
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal 26 years into his sentence in a landlocked prison, described an early childhood memory that haunted him, of walking further and further into the ocean during low tide until the sudden depth and darkness before him overcame him with fear.
Twenty-six Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Ocean), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal 26 years into his sentence in a landlocked prison, described an early childhood memory that haunted him, of walking further and further into the ocean during low tide until the sudden depth and darkness before him overcame him with fear.
Diego Rivera (Loss), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of TEN in two sizes:
16 x 20 ins - Edition of 5 - $2,000
20 x 24 ins - Edition of 5 - $2,500
As described when asking a man serving a life w/o parole sentence in solitary confinement how he made his cell feel more like home. He had at one point decorated his cell with Diego Rivera prints. After numerous times of them being torn down during shakedowns he decided to leave his walls bare.
14/38 (Not the Man I Once Was), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
24 x 20 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
40 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
50 x 40 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
Portrait of a man 14 years into his death row sentence, where the ratio of years spent in prison to years alive determined the level of image loss.
Five Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Dying Wish- Ratama Tree), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal facing his swiftly approaching execution describes his dying wish.
Twelve Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Dying Wish- Ratama Tree), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal facing his swiftly approaching execution describes his dying wish.
Fourteen Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Dying Wish- Ratama Tree), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal facing his swiftly approaching execution describes his dying wish.
17/35 (Not the Man I Once Was), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
24 x 20 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
40 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
50 x 40 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
Portrait of a man 17 years into his death row sentence, where the ratio of years spent in prison to years alive determined the level of image loss.
Six Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Cave), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal 17 years into his death row sentence describes growing up in Southern California and the cave he and his friends gathered at as teens.
Eight Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Cave), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal 17 years into his death row sentence describes growing up in Southern California and the cave he and his friends gathered at as teens.
Seventeen Years out of a Death Row Sentence (Cave), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal 17 years into his death row sentence describes growing up in Southern California and the cave he and his friends gathered at as teens.
An Accumulation of Prison Correspondence, 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of TEN in two sizes:
16 x 20 ins - Edition of 5 - $2,000
20 x 24 ins - Edition of 5 - $2,500
15/30 (Not the Man I Once Was), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
24 x 20 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
40 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
50 x 40 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
Portrait of a man 15 years into his life sentence, where the ratio of years spent in prison to years alive determined the level of image loss.
Four Years out of a Life Sentence (Desert), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal 15 years into his life sentence describes the landscape he grew up with, also sharing the memory of the night he and two young men set out on a road trip through this stark landscape, landing him with second degree murder and robbery charges at the age of 15.
Eight Years out of a Life Sentence (Desert), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal 15 years into his life sentence describes the landscape he grew up with, also sharing the memory of the night he and two young men set out on a road trip through this stark landscape, landing him with second degree murder and robbery charges at the age of 15.
Fifteen Years out of a Life Sentence (Desert), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal 15 years into his life sentence describes the landscape he grew up with, also sharing the memory of the night he and two young men set out on a road trip through this stark landscape, landing him with second degree murder and robbery charges at the age of 15.
Handmade Jump Rope (torn and braided bed sheet), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of TEN in two sizes:
40x16 ins - Edition of 5 - $3,500
48 x 20 ins - Edition of 5 - $4,500
As described by a man who spent 15 years in solitary confinement on death row before being executed in March of 2012.
13/32 (Not the Man I Once Was), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
24 x 20 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
40 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
50 x 40 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
Portrait of a man 13 years into his death row sentence, where the ratio of years spent in prison to years alive determined the level of image loss.
Three Years out of a Death Row Sentence (River), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 24 in - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 45 in - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 60 in - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal serving a death row sentence describes being baptized several years ago. The Father had to reach through the bars to touch him, even with such restrictions he remembers the touch as electric. Despite the act of the baptism he feared it wasn’t good enough to save him. He longed to do a full submersion baptism in a river, like Jesus had.
Eleven Years out of a Death Row Sentence (River), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes:
20 x 30 in - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 45 in - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 60 in - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal serving a death row sentence describes being baptized several years ago. The Father had to reach through the bars to touch him, even with such restrictions he remembers the touch as electric. Despite the act of the baptism he feared it wasn’t good enough to save him. He longed to do a full submersion baptism in a river, like Jesus had.
Thirteen Years out of a Death Row Sentence (River), 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of FIFTEEN in three sizes
20 x 24 / 20 x 30 in. - Edition of 5 - $2,500
30 x 40 / 30 x 45 in. - Edition of 5 - $4,000
40 x 50 / 40x60 in. - Edition of 5 - $5,500
A pen pal serving a death row sentence describes being baptized several years ago. The Father had to reach through the bars to touch him, even with such restrictions he remembers the touch as electric. Despite the act of the baptism he feared it wasn’t good enough to save him. He longed to do a full submersion baptism in a river, like Jesus had.
Envelope Art sent from Death Row, 2009-2016
Archival Pigment Print
Edition of TEN in two sizes:;
16 x 20 ins - Edition of 5 - $2,000
20 x 24 ins - Edition of 5 - $2,500
Amy Elkins (American, b. 1979) is a visual artist and educator based in Northern California. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University. She works primarily in photography and installation and has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally, including at The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA; South Bend Museum of Art in South Bend IN; MSU Broad Museum in Lansing, MI; Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna; the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; North Carolina Museum of Art and more. Her photographs have been published in American Photo, Conveyor, Dear Dave, EyeMazing, Financial Times, Harpers, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, NY Arts, New York Times, New Yorker, PDN, Real Simple, Stella and Vice among many others. She was recently awarded a Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship and Kala Media Arts Fellowship. Past awards include the Aperture Portfolio Prize, Peter S. Reed Foundation grant, Cadogan Award and more. Her work is in permanent collections at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Newcomb Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Light Work, Syracuse, NY; Aperture Foundation, New York, NY; Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Roanoke, VA; RISD Museum, Providence, RI and more.
Elkins has spent the past fifteen+ years researching, creating and exhibiting work that explores the complexities of gender, race and identity. Elkins’ earlier work, Wallflower (2004-2008), investigates the nuances of gender identity, vulnerability and the female gaze. She later went on to investigate aspects of male identity and athleticism through projects Elegant Violence (2010), where she documented young Ivy League rugby players moments after a game and Danseur (2012), looking to young male ballet dancers’ moments after intensive training. In 2016 Elkins returned to the Wallflower portrait. Though unlike the original series, which aimed the lens at cisgender men almost entirely photographed within her personal space, Wallflower II explores a much broader sense of masculine identity- shot in the personal space of strangers in urban and rural Georgia upon first meeting and found through online calls surrounding ideas of masculinity and gender in the American South. The work aims to confront socially constructed ideas and standards surrounding both gender and masculinity, vulnerability and beauty.
In 2009 Elkins began working on Black is the Day, Black is the Night, which stretched over a span of 8 years. The project explores how memory and notions of self are impacted by isolation and long-term imprisonment. This work was made directly through correspondence with men serving life and death row sentences in some of the most maximum-security prisons in the US. Her interest in examining the carceral state led her to make additional works Parting Words, Golden State, Sunshine State, Holding Pattern and more. In 2019 she was commissioned by Newcomb Museum in New Orleans, LA to create the installation Mother and Child which has been exhibited around the country in the traveling exhibition Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana.
Most recently Elkins' work pivots to include explorations of self as well as her family's deeply rooted and complex history in Southern California as an 8th generation traceably born on Tongva/Gabrielino land in the greater Los Angeles area with the ancestral blood of both colonized and colonizer. Her approach is series-based, steeped in research and oscillates between formal, conceptual and documentary.
