Coney Island, 2020

Caption: Coney Island, 2020, from the series "Street Dailies"

Bio: Amy Touchette is a photographer based in Brooklyn who explores themes of social connectedness through street portraiture. Trained at the International Center of Photography (ICP), she began her artistic career as a writer and painter, earning a BA in Literature and Studio Art and an MA in Literature. She is represented by CLAMP in New York City and Little Big Galerie in Paris, France. 
Amy’s second monograph, Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, published in January 2022 by Schilt Publishing (Amsterdam), was shortlisted for the Lucie Photo Book Prize 2022 and garnered a Critical Mass 2021 Top 50. Her first monograph, Shoot the Arrow: A Portrait of The World Famous *BOB*,  published in 2013 by Un-Gyve Press (Boston), was featured in la Repubblica, Esquire Magazine, Vogue Italia, and elsewhere. She has also been published in The New York Times, the New York Observer, The Guardian, and Artsy, and in the books Women Street Photographers (Prestel, 2021) and Brooklyn Photographs Now (Rizzoli, 2018).
Amy’s photographs have exhibited nationally and internationally, including at MoMA-Moscow, Leica Gallery-Warszawa, Hamburg Triennial of Photography, and in the U.S. Embassies in Vienna, Austria, and Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Her street portraits are currently exhibiting through 2026 at ANU Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel, in “20&20 A Lens of Her Own,” comprising 20 pioneering women photographers paired with 20 contemporary women photographers. The exhibition includes a short documentary video of Amy discussing her connection with Éva Besnyö (with whom she was paired) and photographing in her Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn neighborhood. Images from Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, debuted at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England, 2019-2020, as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition, and in 2021, an image from the series was made into a 8’ x 5’ flag and flown at the iconic Rockefeller Center rink as part of Aperture’s “The Flag Project.”
Amy regularly gives artist lectures and public talks on the topic of photographing on the street, most recently at SALA business and leadership summit, Fotografiska Museum on the occasion of Vivian Maier’s exhibition there, and the School of Visual Arts’ Masters in Digital Photography i3 Lecture series. She teaches street portraiture in ICP’s full-time Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism program and in the Open Education program and also writes regularly about photography for various publications.
Amy is currently at work on several medium-format street photography series, as well as Street Dailies, her ongoing series of impromptu portraits of strangers, which are released regularly on Instagram. Hugely inspired by her home-base, she culled images of New Yorkers from this series to create NYC Street Dailies, a one-of-a-kind deck of playing cards that celebrates NYC residents. Each card features a unique portrait, and each suit is dedicated to some of her favorite muses: grannies (spades), workers (diamonds), twins and sets (clubs), and quintessential, beloved NYC characters (hearts).

Size: 18x24 Print

Photographer's Website: www.amytouchette.com