Gretchen Grace is a photographer, an artist, and a designer. For the last 30 years she has been photographing on the street, mostly in New York City, but also on streets around the world. Gretchen's work is primarily lens-based, still and video, real and abstract. She also paints, collages, and experiments with typography. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Eyeshot, Aint Bad, Smithsonian Magazine, Noice, Broad, Women in Street, Strant, Daylight, Shots, and Japan Camera Hunter, among others. She has a children’s book–for adults too–called Messy Hair. You can find more of her work on Instagram @_gretchengrace_.

PUBLICATIONS

THE PHOBLOGRAPHER, March 30, 2023. "19 Incredible Female Photographers We Talked to in 2023", by Chris Gampat

THE PHOBLOGRAPHER, March 24, 2023. "Why Street Photographer Gretchen Grace loves Black and White", by Chris Gampat

TWO WAY STREET, published by Daylight Books, releasing on November 1, 2022. A collection of my NYC street photography that combines black and white film work from the 1990s/early 2000s, and more recent street abstractions captured digitally.

SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, November 2020, 18TH ANNUAL SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE PHOTO CONTEST: CLOSE project (pandemic portraits)

LADDER & KEY, August 2, 2020, 10 Point Profile: Gretchen Grace, Street Abstractions

1MILLIONDIAMONDS, December 15, 2019, Feature, Gretchen Grace, Motion Pictures & Street Work

EDGE OF HUMANITY MAGAZINE, September 14, 2019, Feature, Gretchen Grace, Street Photography, New York City 

AINT BAD MAGAZINE No. 14, 2019 Annual Issue, page 197

FAST FORWARD: WOMEN IN PHOTO, In conversation August 12-17, 2019

SURREAL ESTATE ZINE, July 2019, curated by Float Magazine and Casual Science 

JAPAN CAMERA HUNTER: VISUAL INTERVIEW, May 13, 2019, curated by Jesse Freeman 

HUMBLE ARTS FOUNDATION, March 11, 2019, 
Winter Pictures, curated by Jon Feinstein and Andy Adams 

NEW YORK TIMES ALBUM, March 10, 2019,

‘What Is That?’ Seeing the City as Abstract Art, photo editor Andrew Hinderaker, editor John Leland

SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, March 9, 2019, Winter Pictures, curatorial takeover by Andy Adams,