Amy Friend

Biography

Amy Friend is a Canadian artist whose work has been exhibited internationally at Paris Photo, the National Portrait Gallery (London), and the DongGang Museum of Photography (South Korea). Friend released her latest monograph in 2025, Firelight (L’Artiere, 2025). 

See Work

ESSAYS / Fall 2025

My Mother’s Body

By Louise Bokkenheuser ,  Illustration by Amy Friend

A few years ago, I traveled to Skovsbostrand on the island of Funen in my native Denmark to write in a solitary residence by the sea. It was winter, too cold to sit in the garden among the priestly Eranthis and flocks of snowdrops, their...

Photograph by Amy Friend of a baby being cradled by its mother. Photograph overlaid with small bright flash effects like stars or light on water.
ESSAYS / Summer 2017

Lord of the WASPs

By Emily Eakin ,  Illustrations by Amy Friend

My grandmother bought her first island in 1952. It was eight acres in the shape of a meaty drumstick, a hunk of sunbaked granite off the eastern shore of the Georgian Bay, in southern Ontario.

Illustration by Amy Friend
FICTION / Summer 2015

Late-Night Bloomers

By Karolina Waclawiak ,  Illustrations by Amy Friend