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Amy Touchette

Amy Touchette is a photographer based in Brooklyn, who specializes in street portraits. Trained at the International Center of Photography, where she now teaches, her photographs have exhibited internationally, including the National Portrait Gallery in London and the MoMA-Moscow, and have been published in Women Street Photographers (Prestel, 2021) and The New York Times. Described by Buzzfeed as a “master of street photography in the busiest of concrete jungles, New York City,” Touchette’s second monograph, Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn (Schilt Publishing, 2022), was short-listed for the Lucie Photo Book Award and garnered a Critical Mass 2021 Top 50. She’s represented by Clamp in NYC and Little Big Galerie in Paris, France.

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