40 Amy Horowitz Street Portrait Photography, New York & Human Connection
episodePreviously titled “Amy Horowitz Street Portrait Photography, New York & Human Connection” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 12, 2026
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How did Amy first get into street photography?
Welcome back to another episode of Talking Fains with your host Tim Bingham. In this episode, I'm delighted to be speaking with Amy Horowitz, a New York city of streets and portrait photographer, known for intimate portraits of young people. The work focuses on themes of coming of age, individuality, activism, gender expression, and human connection. She studied photography at the International Centre of Photography and has gained recognition in the international street photography scene for her direct human-centred style and has received recognition in a number of international street photography festivals. This episode is an honest and thoughtful discussion about street photography, fear, creativity, discipline, self-expression and the emotional connections that can emerge between strangers through photography.
Hope you enjoy these conversations much cited. Amy, thank you so much for this.
Oh, thank you for having me.
My pleasure. Um see we met each other last year, didn't we, in Dublin, so Um I've been meaning to get on for a while, it's just with everything else going on. It's just been a bit of a nuts.
It's always been right. Life is so busy.
Absolutely. Amy, I suppose just s I mean, just to begin with, how did you get into street photography in the beginning?
Uh I I always enjoyed photography and I raised three kids. I was a stay at home mom. We lived in the suburbs. And when my kids moved out and became adults, uh we moved to the city and it, you know, it was like a kid in a candy store. I could take classes. So I decided, okay, I'm gonna take photography classes. And uh the more I got into it, the more passionate I became and then just started going and I walk a lot, so I just took my camera and kept Gone.
Cool. And the um I mean how long have how long have you been been I suppose, how long have been doing street photography for?
I would say going on six years now.
Okay. Okay. So What pulled you into street photography in the beginning?
Um I guess the class I I don't know, I think um I just like the street. You know, I grew up in the suburbs. I spent my days and nights walking on the streets with my friends and granted there wasn't as much going on in the suburbs as the city, but I absolutely love the energy of a city and I love walking and people watching and all of it. Even the subways. I I love. And you know, some people can't stand it. I love it. So you know, I just I just like people, um and what's going on and g walking into Unpredictable things which always pops up in the city, you know. Is
that so I suppose is there kind of creativity within your family?
I would say no.
Okay. Okay.
Not my my mom and father are not particularly creative now.
Okay. Okay. But
but they are funny and they they do like, you know, the novel and new things, which is maybe where I get that from 'cause I'm always drawn to the unexpected and You know, I'd be in my building and I remember at the end of COVID and somebody says, Oh, there's a Black Lives Matter protest going on, like as if don't go outside. I go, Which way did they go? And I just follow. You know, I wanna be in in what's g happening.
Yeah.
So
I mean what's a parti I suppose was a particular moment or photograph that's kind of captured your attention at the beginning before you I suppose before you started to do photography in the beginning.
Okay. So um I had been taking a class. It was uh Christopher Giulio's um grammar photography class through International Center of Photography. So the classes were online dur during COVID and as an aside, but at that point I had seen uh we had He had done a lecture on Age, Eugene Age, who was a documentarian in Paris who wanted to photograph all the streets of Paris before Paris became modernized. And That inspired me and then I began an architectural project in the city, shooting architecture during covet. There were no cars, there were no people. And I guess I'm a very concrete and direct person, so that suited me for a while. And then one day I have at the end of COVID, towards the end, I happened upon a drag queen with bright red hair and a green sequin outfit.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How did Amy first get into street photography?
0:00–11:43
2
What moment sparked Amy’s passion for street portraiture?
11:43–22:48
3
How does Amy overcome fear and approach strangers for portraits?
22:48–34:52
4
What is Amy’s process for finding and selecting subjects in Washington Square Park?
34:52–46:47
5
How does Amy balance composition and emotion in her street portraits?
46:47–51:47
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