'Backyard', 2005
Digital C-Print
'Nursery', 2005
Digital C-Print
'Women and Guns #1'
'Women and Guns #7'
'Women and Guns #3'
In her 'Domesticated' series, which won the Saatchi Gallery/Guardian Prize in 2006, Amy Stein restaged encounters between humans and animals. The narratives for her images were taken from local and oral history, which accounts for the familiar but also incongruous and sometimes bizarre impression that they give.
The same is true of her latest series 'Women & Guns'. The images deliberately pair two traditionally separate subjects and underscore the potential for fear and aggression in any chance encounter. Stein's subjects highlight the artificial boundaries we have constructed between tame and wild, inside and outside, human and animal. She retells and simultaneously exposes the machinery behind the folk stories we use to explain and protect ourselves from the world beyond the picket fence.
Amy Stein (b. 1970) was raised in Washington, DC, and Karachi, Pakistan. She holds a BS in Political Science from James Madison University and a MS in Political Science from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In 2006, she received her MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Stein teaches photography at Parsons The New School for Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Nevada Museum of Art, SMoCA and the West Collection.
To view her profile page on Saatchi Online click here, and visit the artist's own website, amysteinphoto.com.
Angela Roberts
Angela Roberts is a freelance writer currently living and working in Basel and Zurich.
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