Amy Stein

Amy Stein must have paid attention to her kindergarten teacher when he/she told her to share because she knows how to share. Some artists like to keep their process or technique a secret. Amy Stein is a somewhat rare breed of artist who lets people of interest in on how she creates images. Annie Leibovitz and Chase Jarvis are also good artist to look into if your thirsty for more insider secrets.

Amy talked about her "Stranded" series and told us how she had grander plans but due to time, money and other limitations she had to be creative while compromising with natural forces against her. The end result is a wonderful series of people stranded on the side of the road. Some might question the pictures she chose to use but all together it is a cohesive body of work. Ultimately you can tell she is making conscious decisions with her work rather than letting things happen. Her work is very posed but posed so well it even confused National Geographic when they took a look at her "Domesticated" series. Amy let us in on how she likes to tell her version of the truth with her work by combining bits and pieces of true stories from the locals and mending it together in her mind to make something new. Amy has a fantastic talent of really getting to know people and their specialties. She uses the knowledge to find people to work with on her creation of images.

Amy is a great example of an artist who isnt afraid to tell secrets and it shows in her work.



Her website: http://www.amysteinphoto.com/