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 / 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