Photo by: Kevin Ly
Hailing from New Jersey and based in Los Angeles, CA - Amber Salik is an artist, therapist, and creative facilitator whose work explores the intersections of identity, memory, and emotional landscapes. Often working with photography, writing, and mixed media, she is drawn to themes of grief, transformation, and the beauty in imperfection. Through her personal and therapeutic work, she seeks to cultivate spaces of reflection, connection, and healing, inviting others to see the beauty in their own stories.
Amber’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in storytelling—whether documenting musicians in various creative spaces, capturing the evolving nature of home and belonging through intimate portraits, or exploring transitions through mosaic, pottery, writing and collage. Her projects, such as "The Art of Becoming: In Process, In Love", "Gradually, Then Suddenly," and "Reflections of Growth", reflect a commitment to visual archiving, honoring both personal and collective histories.
Her work has been previously showcased in numerous venues and publications, such as Painted Brain, Art Loud x Valence Projects, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Black Women Photographers, Level Ground, Sovern, and Adolescent Content, among others.
In addition to her work as an artist, Amber is an expressive arts therapist specializing in working with BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and neurodivergent individuals, as well as couples. She incorporates photography, music, and mixed media into her therapeutic practice, helping clients navigate identity, grief, and change. She is also the founder of Flow Space, a creative wellness initiative centered on creativity, self-expression, and community care.
Currently, Amber is expanding her artistic practice with projects that blend documentary work, installation, and participatory storytelling.
She is available for collaborations, exhibitions, and commissions worldwide.
“To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography