The Trasheaters
Watering Hole
Saatchi Online artist Amy Stein has her first book, Domesticated, coming out this year. This is a limited edition of just 600 copies and is sure to become an instant collectors' item. It is already one of the bestselling books on Photo-eye's website where you can purchase the book.
Amy Stein's photographs explore our paradoxical relationship with the "wild" and how our conflicting impulses continue to evolve and alter the behavior of both humans and animals. We at once seek connection with the mystery and freedom of the natural world, yet we continually strive to tame the wild around us and compulsively control the wild within our own nature. Within her work she examines the primal issues of comfort and fear, dependence and determination, submission and dominance that play out in the physical and psychological ecotones between man and the natural world.
Amy Stein received her MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been featured in publications such as Photo District News, ARTnews, Vanity Fair Italia, Money Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine and The New York Times. In 2006 she was a winner of the Saatchi Gallery/The Guardian Prize for her Domesticated series. In 2007 she was named one of the top 15 emerging photographers in the United States by American Photo magazine. Also in 2007 she was selected as one of the winners of the Critical Mass Book Prize. She is represented by the Paul Kopeikin gallery.com in Los Angeles.
Amy Stein's 'Domesticated' series is currently on view at the Print Center in Philadelphia. The show features seven large prints from the series and runs through 14 February.
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