The Architecture League of New York & Rockefeller Center,
Urban Omnibus
DECEMBER 11, 2024 Commissioned by The Architecture League of New York for its publication Urban Omnibus, Amy’s photographs of Rockefeller Center illustrate the comeback of this iconic NYC setting in “What Becomes a Legend Most.”
Book Cover,
Shoot the Arrow: A Portrait of The World Famous *BOB*
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024 “Leaving Home,” from the series Shoot the Arrow: A Portrait of The World Famous *BOB*, graces the cover of Carley Moore’s newly published poetry collection Heart Less (Indolent Books, 2024).
ICP Photobook Fest,
Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn & NYC Street Dailies,
NYC
SEPTEMBER 7-8, 2024 Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and NYC Street Dailies playing cards are part of the International Center of Photography’s annual photography festival. VIP preview is Friday, Sep 6, 6-9pm. General hours are Saturday Sep 7, 11am-7pm, and Sunday, Sep 8, 12pm-6pm. ICP is located in the Lower East Side at 79 Essex Street in NYC.
Brooklyn Org,
Image Acquisitions,
Brooklyn, NY
MAY 18, 2024 Images from Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn are acquired for nonprofit Brooklyn Org’s latest campaign published on billboards and buses and in subway stations and cinema lobbies throughout Brooklyn.
Coffee with Creatives,
Podcast/Video Interview,
Adorama, NYC
MARCH 27, 2024 Amy speaks with Seth Miranda, host of Coffee with Creatives, a weekly series of video interviews that “pull back the curtain on the creative process.” Recorded live in Adorama’s event space in New York City, click here to watch/listen!
Building the Perfect Music Collection,
Mary Halvorson
NOVEMBER 2023 Amy’s portrait of avant-garde jazz composer and guitarist Mary Halvorson is included in Building the Perfect Music Collection, by John Kirk (Five Star Bologna, Manzanita, Oregon).
The Guardian,
Taylor Mac & Machine Dazzle
AUGUST 2023 Performing artist Taylor Mac discusses his latest creation, “Bark of Millions,” in The Guardian, accompanied by Amy’s portraits of Taylor Mac and costume designer Machine Dazzle. Read the article here.
UMass Special Collections,
Interview
MAY 2023 In 2020-21, Jerry Russo interviewed 250 artists about their creative and personal experience during Covid-19, including Amy. Those oral histories are now housed in the Robert S. Cox Special Collections & University Archives Research Center at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Watch Amy’s video interview here.
Inspired Eye Magazine,
Interview
MAY 2023 Amy is interviewed in Inspired Eye magazine, a publication devoted entirely to street photography. Read the interview here, and subscribe to the magazine to have access to the entire issue.
ICP Photobook Fest,
Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn,
NYC
MAY 12-14, 2023 Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and NYC Street Dailies playing cards are part of the International Center of Photography’s annual photography festival. VIP preview is Friday, May 12, 6-9pm. General hours are Saturday May 13, 11am-7pm, and Sunday, May 14, 12pm-6pm. ICP is located in the Lower East Side at 79 Essex Street, NYC, 10002.
Street Photography Magazine, Feature & Video Interview
FEBRUARY 2023 Amy’s street photography is featured on the cover of Street Photography Magazine, as well as in an article inside about her experiences, methodologies, advice for fine art photographers, and more. Also included: a video of Amy in conversation with magazine founder Bob Patterson and editor Ashley Riffo.
Street Photography Magazine, Podcast Interview
NOVEMBER 18, 2022 Amy speaks with Bob Patterson, host of Street Photography Magazine podcast, about the definition of street photography, its ideal role in society, and how it helps to keep us connected. Listen here.
The Protagonist,
Shoot the Arrow: A Portrait of The World Famous *BOB*
OCTOBER 8, 2022 Photographs from Shoot the Arrow: A Portrait of The World Famous *BOB* are published in The Protagonist magazine alongside an extensive interview with *BOB*, who discusses her life story and experience being photographed by Amy, among many other topics.
MPB & Photoville,
Group Interview
JULY 13, 2022 Amy and fellow participating photographers in Photoville’s “The Brooklyn Connection” exhibition are interviewed by sponsor MPB.
“NY, NY” Music Video
by Smoota,
Street Dailies
JULY 1, 2022 Street Dailies is featured in the music video “New York, New York,” a cover of Sinatra’s renowned song by Brooklyn-based musician Smoota.
Park Slope Reader,
Feature
JUNE 24, 2022 Amy is featured in the Arts section of Park Slope Reader, No. 81.
The Guardian,
Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
JUNE 22, 2022 An image from Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn is featured in The Guardian’s “My Best Shot.”
Verdens Lege,
by Louise Banke,
Denmark
JUNE 2, 2022 Amy’s street portraits of children playing in Bed-Stuy and South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Pensacola, Florida, are included in Verdens Lege (Children Playing), by Louise Banke.
ICP Photobook Fest,
Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn,
NYC
MAY 21-22 11am-7pm Held at ICP, spanning the galleries and school, this two-day event features over 40 leading photobook publishers and photographers showcasing their latest image-based books. ICP Photobook Fest will also include special events such as in-person book signings and a zine-making workshop. Tickets are available now. Held in partnership with The Photography Show: Presented by AIPAD, Amy’s latest monograph, Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, will be available.
Blind Magazine,
Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
MARCH 10, 2022 Bilingual, French/English online magazine Blind features Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
What Will You Remember?
Book Review,
Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
MARCH 9, 2022 Suzanne Révy reviews Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn in the online photography magazine What Will You Remember? alongside Languor, by Donavon Smallwood and Red Eye to New York, by Janet Delaney.
B&H Photography Podcast,
Interview with Larry Fink
MARCH 3, 2022 Amy and Larry Fink are interviewed on the B&H Photography Podcast about collaborating on Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and his newly acquired archive by the Center for Creative Photography. Also available on Apple and Spotify.
Camera Austria Library Acquisition,
Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
JANUARY 2022 The library of Camera Austria, a publicly accessible study library in Graz, Austria, acquires Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Comprising nearly 10,000 monographs, artists’ books, exhibition catalogues, reference works, and publications on the history and theory of photography since the 1970s, plus over 6,000 titles from approximately 70 different periodicals, it provides visitors the opportunity to research the varied links between photography and contemporary art internationally.
Personal Ties:
Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn,
Schilt Publishing
JANUARY 2022 A series of street portraits Amy made with a Rollieflex film camera in her adopted neighborhood, Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn is published by Schilt Publishing, an Amsterdam-based publisher that specializes in high quality photography and art books. Distributed by Ingram Publishers in North America and Thames & Hudson internationally.
Purchase a signed copy directly from Amy, or an unsigned book at the MoMA Store, Strand Books, Rizzoli Bookstore, Greenlight Bookstore, Spoonbill & Sugartown, and elsewhere.
#ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis,
Street Dailies
NOVEMBER 2021 A diary for a world-wide pandemic, #ICPConcerned captures 263 days in 2020 recorded by 820 photographers curated from over 60,000 submissions. This is the book form of an exhibition at the International Center of Photography Museum (ICP) that became a digital phenomenon in lockdown. An image from Street Dailies is included.
Fast Forward:
Women in Photography,
Guest Instagram
NOVEMBER 15-20, 2021 Fast Forward is a research project concerned with women in photography based at University for the Creative Arts that highlights the work of women photographers and questions the way the established canons have been formed. While taking over Fast Forward’s Instagram for the week, Amy shares images from her upcoming book, Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and her experiences making them.
Focus Fotomagazine,
Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
NOVEMBER 2021 Focus profiles Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn in its Book section. Focus has been the leading Dutch magazine on photography for over a century.
Not Real Art,
Artist of the Day
OCTOBER 19, 2021 Not Real Art features Amy in its “Artist of the Day” series.
DAZED,
Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
OCTOBER 6, 2021 Dazed features Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn in its Art & Photography section. The most influential independent culture title in the world, Dazed is where pop culture meets the underground.
Neo-Burlesque:
Striptease as Transformation,
Rutgers University Press,
Shoot the Arrow
OCTOBER 2021 Performance studies scholar and acclaimed burlesque artist Lynn Sally’s academic book Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation offers an inside look at the history, culture, and philosophy of New York’s neo-burlesque scene and includes a portrait of The World Famous *BOB* from Shoot the Arrow.
Camera Austria International magazine,
Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
SEPTEMBER 2021 Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn is included in Camera Austria International’s “Forum.” Founded in 1980, the magazine has been providing its readers with insights into important discourses on the continuously developing role of photography as a medium and practice of contemporary art.
Max Fish Chronicles,
Live Stream Interview
JULY 28, 2021, 3-5pm A Max Fish and Vans partnership, Max Fish Chronicles is a series of visual podcasts that stream live on @vanschannel66. This episode features photographers Destiny Mata, Cheryl Dunn, and Amy.
Women Street Photographers,
Prestel Publishing
MARCH 2021 Women Street Photographers features 100 contemporary women street photographers, including Amy. Edited by Gulnara Samoilova, with a foreword by Ami Vitale and an essay by Melissa Breyer.
Art A Part of Culture,
NYC Street Dailies
playing cards,
Rome, Italy
DECEMBER 27, 2020 Curator and art historian Manuela De Leonardis features NYC Street Dailies playing cards in her new column “Flying Photo Book Carpet” in the Rome-based art and culture webmagazine Art A Part of Culture.
Souvenirs Zine,
”Isolation,”
Street Dailies
JUNE 2020 Images from Street Dailies during COVID-19 are published in the debut of Souvenirs, “Isolation” issue, the profits of which go to City Harvest, an organization that feeds NYC’s hungry.
Adorama Camera Store,
”Coffee with Creators,”
Interview
APRIL 23, 2020 Join Amy & Adorama’s Seth Miranda on Facebook Live for a candid discussion between working creatives.
Blank White Space,
Interview
APRIL 10, 2020 London-based art consultant Blank White Space interviews Amy for “The Art of Staying Home,” an online auction benefit for Global Giving’s Coronavirus Relief Fund and Meals for NHS.
Professional Photographer Magazine,
NYC Street Dailies
playing cards
FEBRUARY 2020 Professional Photographer Magazine interviews Amy about NYC Street Dailies playing cards.
The Eye of Photography,
NYC Street Dailies
playing cards
DECEMBER 18, 2019 The Eye of Photography features NYC Street Dailies playing cards.
Visual Revolutionary Podcast,
Interview
DECEMBER 5, 2019 Amy speaks in-depth with Ric Stovall, host of Visual Revolutionary podcast, about her personal and professional journey.
Digital Photo Pro Magazine,
Feature
OCTOBER 2019 Amy discusses her inspiration for photographing on the street in this feature article.
PDN Photo of the Day,
NYC Street Dailies
Playing Cards
OCTOBER 7, 2019 NYC Street Dailies playing cards is featured on PDN’s Photo of the Day, a platform that displays photographs selected by the editors of Photo District News magazine
Brooklyn Photographs Now,
Us
OCTOBER 11, 2018 Two images from Us are included in Brooklyn Photographs Now, a book published by Rizzoli reflecting the avant-garde spirit of the city’s hippest borough. Containing previously unpublished work by well-known and emerging contemporary artists, the book presents 250 images by more than seventy-five artists, including Mark Seliger, Jamel Shabazz, Ryan McGinley, Mathieu Bitton, and Michael Eastman, among many others. Edited by Marla Hamburg Kennedy, with essays by Anne Pasternak and Philip Lopate.
Rocket Science Magazine,
Guest Instagram
OCTOBER 4-10, 2018 Rocket Science Magazine brings together the finest and most exciting actors in contemporary photography through a set of portfolios, interviews, features, and articles. Amy shares some of her favorite images from Street Dailies, while taking over Rocket Science Magazine’s Instagram for the week.
GUEST
B&H Photography Podcast
APRIL 27, 2018 Amy and photographer Ruddy Roye discuss their experiences and thoughts about making portraits on the street on the B&H Photography Podcast, "Intention and Interaction in Street Portraiture."
GUEST
The Photo Brigade Podcast
APRIL 20, 2018 Join Robert Caplin from The Photo Brigade and Amy for a podcast at Adorama's Event Space in NYC. They'll talk about Amy's career, projects, and much more. Join them in person or watch their discussion online via The Photo Brigade's Facebook Live.
Lenscratch,
The Young Series
MARCH 1, 2018 LENSCRATCH is a daily journal that explores contemporary photography and offers opportunities for exposure and community. Created in 2007, Aline Smithson set a goal of writing about a different photographer each day, presenting work in a way that allows for a deeper understanding of a photographer’s intent and vision. LENSCRATCH is considered one of the 10 photography blogs you should be reading according to Source Photographic Review, Wired.com, Rangefinder and InStyle Magazine.
Photo Workshop New York,
Interview
FEBRUARY 9, 2018 PHOTO WORKSHOP NEW YORK (PWNY) is an educational project organized each year in New York City, founded in 2010 by Laura De Marco and Roberto Alfano, the directors of the center of photography Spazio Labo’ in Bologna, Italy.
The Creative Independent,
Interview
NOVEMBER 2, 2017 The Creative Independent is a resource of emotional and practical guidance for creative people. Its goal is to educate, inspire, and grow the community of people who create or dream of creating. The Creative Independent is ad-free and published by Kickstarter, PBC. Each weekday they publish one interview by an artist—including musicians, authors, filmmakers, dancers, designers, and others. Conversations explore themes like collaboration, creative beginnings, the creative process, failure, triumph, fear and anxiety, and bouncing back.
GUP Magazine,
Shoot the Arrow
AUGUST 28, 2017 GUP Magazine (Guide to Unique Photography) is an international authoritative publication on photography, connecting its communities with the sharpest conceptual photography, the latest photo books, and compelling writings about the contemporary world of photography.
LensCulture,
Guest Instagram
JULY 2-11, 2017 While attending Les Rencontres d'Arles, an annual photography festival in Arles, France, I took over LensCulture's Instagram, posting iPhone pictures of the strangers I encountered in the style of Street Dailies.
Painted Bride Quarterly,
Street Dailies
SPRING 2017 "43rd Street, Midtown, Manhattan, 2015" from Street Dailies is on the cover of the eighth print annual of Painted Bride Quarterly, a literary magazine supported by Drexel University.
The Americans List II
APRIL 2017 While working as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, photographer Jason Eskenazi began to ask photographers he knew visiting the "Looking In Exhibition" about Robert Frank’s The Americans to choose their favorite image and explain why. Here, The New Yorker explains the project in greater detail.
Includes contributions from Amy, as well as Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Robert Frank, Martin Parr, Josef Koudelka, John Gossage, Alec Soth and many more.
TIME LightBox,
The Diane Arbus List
NOVEMBER 18, 2016 As Diane Arbus' landmark exhibition at the Met Breuer, "In the Beginning," which features many never-before-seen images, drew to a close, photographers who knew her or were influenced by her work were asked to comment on a photograph that surprised or disappointed them. Their answers (including mine, slide 3) are compiled in this slideshow.
PDNedu Blog,
Street Dailies
AUGUST 18, 2016 Street Dailies is featured on PDNedu's blog. The PDN family of websites—including Photoserve, Photosource and PDNedu—is an unparalleled source of information and inspiration for professional photographers, photo buyers, visual creatives, photo students and their instructors.
Fstoppers,
Review of B&H Photography Podcast
AUGUST 14, 2016 Fstoppers is an online community aimed at educating and inspiring photographers, videographers, and creative professionals. Started in 2010 by founders Patrick Hall and Lee Morris, Fstoppers has grown into one of the top resources for photography lighting, gear reviews, business tips, behind the scenes, and industry news.
GUEST
B&H Photography Podcast
AUGUST 11, 2016 Amy and Gus Powell talk about the role of chance in street photography in this B&H Photography podcast episode, "Collaborating with Chance and the Essence of Street Photography," hosted by Allan Weitz and John Harris.
GUEST
The LPV Show Podcast
NYC
MAY 29, 2015 In episode 2.24, host Bryan Formhals interviews Amy and Jennifer McClure. The LPV Show is a podcast about photography and photobooks. "LPV" was inspired by the quote "the spirit of la pure vida, or the love of life for its own sake..." by Garrison Keillor.
The Hairpin,
McCarren Park Pool
Changing Room
JUNE 20 2014 "Photographer Amy Touchette, whose work has appeared on the Pin in the form of this intensely gorgeous collaboration with The World Famous *BOB* and this 2011 series of sister/not sister portraits, has a wonderful new photo collection and essay about the rule-heavy McCarren Park Pool and the locker room where she met and covertly, quickly photographed a succession of shy, brazen, awesome teenage girls."
Reading the Pictures,
Street Dailies
DECEMBER 21, 2014 Reading The Pictures Originals features Street Dailies and Amy's personal editorial about making candid street photography in "Ode to Light: Making Street Photography in a Cynical Age."
Reading the Pictures,
McCarren Park Pool
Changing Room
JUNE 22, 2014 Reading The Pictures Originals features McCarren Park Pool Changing Room and Amy's personal editorial about her experience making the series in "When Photographing Is Forbidden: Making Portraits in the McCarren Park Pool Locker Room."
Huffington Post,
Shoot the Arrow
DECEMBER 4, 2013 "From a girl growing up on a 115-acre farm in California to a drag queen named after The Cure’s Robert Smith and known to concoct martinis in her décolletage, the photos give a bit of insight into an underground figurehead who turned to performance as a method of detangling her own identity."
PDN Photo of the Day,
Shoot the Arrow
NOVEMBER 15, 2013 PDN Photo of the Day displays photographs selected by the editors of Photo District News, a publication for photo professionals.
Musée Magazine,
Shoot the Arrow
Exhibition Review
OCTOBER 21, 2013 Musée Magazine reviews Shoot the Arrow exhibition at ClampArt.
Slate,
Shoot the Arrow
OCTOBER 17, 2013 Slate's photography blog, Behold, features an article written by Alyssa Coppelman is a freelance photo editor based in Austin, Texas, who spent most of the aughts as assistant art director at Harper’s.
Paper Journal,
Shoot the Arrow
JUNE 27, 2013 Alexander Norton writes about Shoot the Arrow and The World Famous *BOB* in Paper Journal.
A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks,
Shoot the Arrow
SEPTEMBER 14-OCTOBER 18, 2012 Independent publisher Edizioni Labo's catalogue from "Uncommon Intimacy," an exhibition held in Spazio Labo', Bologna, Italy, in March 2012, is published in A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks, by Darius Himes and Larissa Leclair. "Uncommon Intimacy" exhibited photographs by Erica McDonald, Amy Stein, and Juliana Beasley, as well as from Shoot the Arrow.
Transgressor Magazine,
Shoot the Arrow
SEPTEMBER 2012 Shoot the Arrow is the cover story of Transgressor magazine's debut issue, including interviews and audio of The World Famous *BOB* and Amy's super-8 film of her performing "Finale."
Landscape Stories,
New York Young,
SEPTEMBER 2012 Italian online magazine Landscape Stories 09: Adolescence is a collection of photography, interviews, videos, and literature about adolescence.
Booooooom,
The
Insiders
JULY 26 2012 The Insiders is featured on Booooooom.
The New York Times,
New York Young
JULY 22, 2012 The New York Times Metropolitan section features a selection from New York Young, as well as an article about the series. See the slideshow.
SeeSaw Magazine,
Us
APRIL 2012 Established in 2004, SeeSaw is an online photography magazine created by Aaron Schuman that's dedicated to work that successfully captures, represents, and encourages acute observation, via the photographic medium.
Why Are You Surprised
I'm Still Here?,
Deborah
NOVEMBER 2010 Amy's series Deborah is published in Why Are You Surprised I'm Still Here? (LoudMouth Press) created in collaboration with the National Coalition for the Homeless. "Every person who comes across this book will be affected not only by the poignant photographs, but by the lives of the people that they represent."—Michael Stoops, executive director, National Coalition for the Homeless
Painted Bride Quarterly,
Shoot the Arrow
SPRING 2008 “Tompkins Square Library Drawing Class” from Shoot the Arrow is on the cover of the fourth print annual of Painted Bride Quarterly, a literary magazine supported by Drexel University.