Amy Touchette

about Amy

Amy Touchette is a photographer based in New York City, who specializes in street portraits. Trained at the International Center of Photography, where she now teaches, her photographs have exhibited and been published internationally, including at the MoMA-Moscow, in The New York Times, and in The Guardian. One of 100 photographers profiled in the book Women Street Photographers (Prestel, 2021), BuzzFeed called her a “master of street photography in the busiest of concrete jungles, New York City.”

Amy’s latest monograph, Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn (Schilt Publishing, 2022), was short-listed for the Lucie Photo Book Award 2022 and garnered a Critical Mass 2021 Top 50. Photographs from the book debuted at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England, as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition and subsequently exhibited at Lincoln Center in New York City. Her first monograph, Shoot the Arrow: A Portrait of The World Famous *BOB* (Un-Gyve Press, 2013), was featured in various media, including la repubblica, Esquire Magazine, and Vogue Italia. She’s represented by Clamp in NYC and Little Big Galerie in Paris, France.

Website: amytouchette.com

Instagram: @amy_touchette

Workshops taught by Amy Touchette

Demystifying Photo Book Crowdfunding

with Amy Touchette