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 New York, New York and teaches at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons The New School for Design.
Stein's work is featured in many public and private collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; the Portland Art Museum; the Nevada Museum of Art; and SMoCA. In 2007 American Photo magazine named Stein one of the Top 15 Emerging Photographers in the world.
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For her Domesticated series Stein uses personal stories and local newspaper accounts to create staged tableau photographs of human and animal interaction in Matamoras, PA. The work "reveals the unresolved conflict between our yearning for kinship with nature’s mysteries and our desire to bring everything that surrounds us under rational control."[1] 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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  | ''Five in Focus'', Focus Features' Film in Focus Website - Five In Focus | Amy Stein: Artists, writers, musicians, politicians, and filmmakers share their favorite films |
| | Interview with Amy Stein - Q&A: Amy Stein, New York |
| | Amy Stein on artnet - Amy Stein on artnet |
| | Amy Stein's site - Amy Stein | Photography |
| | Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago - Mobius - Searching Objects |
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