About the Artist: Amanda Heiney

Compulsive hoarding (or pathological hoarding) is extreme hoarding behaviour in humans. It involves the collection and/or failure to discard large numbers of objects even when their storage causes significant clutter and impairment to basic living activities such as moving around the house, cooking, cleaning, showering or sleeping.  A slang term for a compulsive hoarder is pack rat or packrat. I am a photographic pack rat.  I love documenting pretty much everything I see because I think anything can be interesting and you never know when you might be able to use it!
I’m a senior at the University of South Carolina majoring in photography.  I just got my first “big girl” camera ( a Canon Rebel XTi) and I am obsessively taking pictures now.  I’ll graduate in August and hopefully go on to be fabulously rich and famous!  Preferably this will happen before I have to start paying my student loans ;)

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