Amanda D. King

Amanda is a Cleveland-based photographer and creative director exploring Black interiority. Drawing from social realist and post-minimalist traditions, her work moves between photography, installation, and design, examining the civic and theological dimensions of contemporary life.

After beginning her creative career in editorial work in New York City, Amanda developed an artistic practice shaped by an ongoing interest in how images produce meaning, circulate through culture, and influence public life. She also works as a cultural strategist, curator, and independent writer, engaging questions of representational ethics, memory, and cultural production within the creative ecology of the Midwest.

Extending this practice, Amanda has produced work for Nike, The Guardian US, and Dazed. Her work has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Transformer Station, and the Akron Art Museum. Her speaking engagements include the Radcliffe Institute and the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2026, Amanda was named to Cleveland 230, recognizing 230 figures across generations for their enduring influence on the city’s cultural and civic life.

Amanda studied art history, photography, and film theory at Bryn Mawr College. She later received her JD from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where she focused on state violence, surveillance, and protected speech. Her visual and legal studies inform an ethic of regard, a framework she developed for thinking about cultural production, representation, and responsibility.