amy touchette

07/29/2024

Nostrand Avenue, Bed-Stuy

07/05/2024

Street photography is a man’s world. Or isn’t it? This Wednesday at Fotografiska, we hash it out in honor of the exhibition “Vivian Maier: Unseen Work” now on view at the museum. Mary Engel (photo archivist of Ruth Orkin), Dara Gottfried (photo archivist of Arlene Gottfried), and I will discuss Maier’s impact on the canon of street photography, the role gender plays in Ruth Orkin’s, Arlene Gottfried’s, and my photographs—and in street photography more broadly—as well as other juicy topics. “The Gendered Lens: Female Street Photographers and the Reframing of Narratives” panel discussion takes place at Fotografiska, Wednesday, July 10 at 7pm. I hope to see you there! See my profile for a link to register.

05/27/2024

Free portfolio reviews at Photoville Festival this Saturday and Sunday by ICP faculty! I’ll be there for Saturday’s session, which takes place 3:30-5:30pm at the ICP tent at Photoville at Brooklyn Bridge Park. See my profile for details and a link to signup. Hurry, this event always sells out!

03/26/2024

Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11am, I come out of my winter cocoon and speak with the incomparable Seth Miranda, host of Adorama’s live podcast “Coffee with Creators.” Join us for a casual conversation that peels back the curtain on the creative process. You can attend in person at Adorama’s event space in NYC or listen online and ask questions via chat. See the link below for details!

Join us for a casual coffee chat with photographer Amy Touchette on our 21st episode of Coffee with Creators

03/25/2024

Wednesday at 11am, I come out of my winter cocoon and speak with the incomparable Seth Miranda (), host of Adorama’s live podcast “Coffee with Creators.” Join us for a casual conversation that peels back the curtain on the creative process. You can attend in person at Adorama’s event space in NYC or listen online and ask questions via chat. See the link below for details!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/amy-touchette-ep21-coffee-with-creators-tickets-866857904327

11/30/2023

I've written in the past about my love for Larry Fink, and I had told him directly, too. That helps—knowing he knew how I felt—but still, I wasn't ready to lose him. Despite his health battles, I chose not to see it coming, and now there's just an empty hole. A Larry-less world. All that I can do is keep his memory alive inside me, and I plan to invoke his passion for life, his love of all kinds of art, and his extremely generous spirit whenever I can.

One of my favorite memories of Larry is when I contacted him to buy a print for my boyfriend's birthday. He's a musician, and over the years I’ve made many photographs of him and our friends playing music. Whenever I made a picture that looked promising, I would show it to Smoot and his response almost always was “Well, it’s no Larry Fink.” And I would laugh because it was so true. He loves a lot of Larry’s images, but particularly the one Larry made in 1966 of Grachan Moncur, Tommy Turrentine, and Roswell Rudd, a trombone player like himself whom Smoot had met and idolized over the years. When I contacted Larry to see if there was a small, perhaps imperfect print of Roswell Rudd lying around that I could purchase, Larry replied within hours saying “there are two prices: free and really expensive—you choose!” When I replied I was over the moon, he wrote back with his typical lyricism:

“Being over the moon asks you to
Be a cow Mooooo
The print is done. Where to send. Nothing is ever the end. Save for organic disappearances. Death is a fart.
After the feted smell of start Living life is an art.
Hugs. Lulu”

Not only would Larry give me the print for free, he refused any sort of payment for paper, ink, his assistant’s time, and postage fees. Within days, a gorgeous, luscious, gigantic print arrived. On the back of it he wrote:

“Birthday
The Bone Blues—
Bopping for the next year
Open your heart
Hear the news."

THIS WAS LARRY (aka LuLu)
And I will miss him dearly.

My heart goes out to his wife Martha and his daughter Molly.

11/25/2023

✨Paris street art✨

11/20/2023

Les hommes à Paris, Rue Ordener, Paris

11/19/2023

Rue des Pyrénées, Belleville, Paris

11/18/2023

Les hommes à Paris, Rue de Clignancourt, Paris

11/16/2023

Boulevard de Belleville, Paris

11/15/2023

Place du Tertre, Montmartre, Paris