Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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If you’re compelled to make people’s portraits on the street, but you don’t know how to go about it, or it intimidates you, or you just want to deepen your experience making pictures of strangers, come to this event. Brooklyn-based street portrait photographer Amy Touchette discusses the various methodologies used by street photographers, practical aspects of photographing strangers, and the psychology behind getting the portrait you envision, including how and why to embrace fear, the role the mind-body connection plays, how to gain strangers’ trust (quickly), and how to recover when things take a turn for the worse.

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About the Presenter

⚪ Amy Touchette, Photographer

Amy Touchette is a photographer based in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, who explores themes of social connectedness through street portraiture. She was trained at the International Center of Photography, where she now teaches, and her photographs have exhibited and been published internationally, including at the MoMA-Moscow and in The New York Times and Artsy. 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.” 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. Photographs from the book have exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, in “In Praise of Shadow Boxers, Dissonance & Dissidents,” a tribute to Greg Tate at Lincoln Center, in Photoville’s “The Brooklyn Connection” curated by Jamel Shabazz, and elsewhere. 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.

Amy's Website: amytouchette.com
Amy's Instagram: instagram.com/amy_touchette
Check out Amy's recent conversation on our Coffee With Creators podcast: youtube.com/watch?v=3WdUncIPPPo

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Check out some of Amy's go-to gear ⤵️

Photo prints from Printique: printique.com

Kodak Portra 400 Color Negative Film, 120 roll film: adorama.com/kkp400120p.html

Kodak Tri-X Pan, TX 402 Black & White Bulk Negative Film ISO 400, 35mm Size: adorama.com/kktx402.html

Fujifilm 8x10" Fujicolor Crystal Archive Type II Lustre Enlarging Paper: adorama.com/fjsfac810l.html

Ilford Multigrade FB Classic, Enlarging Paper 16x20", 50 Sheets, Glossy: adorama.com/ilmfdc16250g.html

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