Amy Stein

Amy Stein (born August 31, 1970 in Washington, DC) is an American photographer known for her Domesticated, Stranded and Halloween in Harlem series. She was raised in Karachi, Pakistan and Washington, DC. Stein now lives in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles.

Stein's work is featured in held in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; the Portland Art Museum; the Nevada Museum of Art; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art; and George Eastman House Photography Collection. In 2007 American Photo magazine named Stein one of the Top 15 Emerging Photographers in the world.

For her Domesticated series, Stein uses personal stories and local newspaper accounts to create staged tableau photographs of human and animal interaction in Matamoras, Pennsylvania. A monograph of Domesticated was published by Photolucida in 2008. That same year Martin Parr awarded Domesticated the Best Book award at the 2008 New York Photo Festival.

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