ICP Photobook Club: Faculty Highlight with Amy Touchette and Ethan Hill

The Photobook Club takes place in the ICP library on the last Saturday of each month. This event is free to attend with RSVP.

Explore photobooks from the ICP Library and connect with fellow photobook enthusiasts at ICP's Photobook Club. Each month, browse hand-picked selections from special guests and ICP community members.

This session of Photobook Club will be activated as a self-browsing reading room. The selection is made by ICP faculty, Amy Touchette and Ethan Hill. Some of the selection include Bruce Davidson: Subway, Helen Levitt: Here and There, Nan Goldin: Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Peter Hujar: Animals and Nudes, and August Sander: Citizens of the Twentieth Century.

Touchette and Hill will have a portfolio review session at 1-4 PM as a part of ICP Community Day x Education Open House, after the Photobook Club. 

Sign up to get a review by Amy Touchette

Sign up to get a review by Ethan Hill

About ICP Library 

ICP’s reading library contains over 20,000 books and periodicals. The reading room is currently open to the public during ICP’s monthly Photobook Club, to researchers by appointment, and to members during Library Member Hours.

Learn more about ICP’s Library here. 

About Amy Touchette

Amy Touchette is a Brooklyn-based fine art photographer specializing in street portraits. Trained at the International Center of Photography, where she now teaches, her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the National Portrait Gallery in London and MoMA-Moscow, and has been published in Women Street Photographers (Prestel, 2021), Brooklyn Photographs Now (Rizzoli, 2018), The New York Times, and elsewhere. Buzzfeed called her "a master of street photography in the busiest of concrete jungles, New York City.” Her second monograph, Personal Ties: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn (Schilt Publishing, 2022), was short-listed for the Lucie Photo Book Award. Images from the series debuted at the National Portrait Gallery in London as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition and garnered a Critical Mass 2021 Top 50. She is represented by Clamp in New York and Little Big Galerie in Paris.

About Ethan Hill

Ethan Hill is a photographer and film maker based in New York working on his first movie about Michael Wilson, Illustrated Man from the Coney Island Sideshow.  Previous work experience includes 20 years experience as an award winning portrait photographer.  A partial client list includes: Rolling Stone, New York Times, Newsweek and Entertainment Weekly.  Ethan also works on an ongoing personal project documenting of the lives of gay men. He is an instructor at the International Center for Photography and has work included in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Image by Pasinee Pramunwong