Gretchen Grace is a photographer, artist, and designer based in New York City. For the last 30 years she has been photographing on the street, in the studio, and on location around the world. For Gretchen, photography is storytelling–narrative and poetic. Her work is primarily lens-based, still and video, real and abstract, and has appeared in the New York Times, Eyeshot, AintBad, Smithsonian Magazine, Noice, Broad, Women in Street, Strant, Daylight, Shots, and Japan Camera Hunter, among others. Gretchen's recently released book, Two Way Street, combines her early NYC black and white film work with her more recent color Street Abstractions, published by Daylight Books. You can find more of her work on Instagram @_gretchengrace_.

PUBLICATIONS

BROAD MAGAZINE, Youth Issue, January 2025

EYESHOT, Spirituality #13, September 2024, Edited by Marco Savarese, pages 58, 203, and back cover

THE PHOBLOGRAPHER, July 26, 2023. "Street Photography with Intent. A question to Ask Yourself", by Chris Gampat

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 AND 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

HUMBLE ARTS FOUNDATION, December 2018,

Numerology, curated by Jon Feinstein and Roula Seikaly

EYESHOT, November 28, 2018

Street Xmas, curated by Marco Savarese

EYESHOT, June 14, 2018

Feature of the day: Gretchen Grace, Black & white street work

NOICE, ISSUE 010, June 12, 2018

Images from Motion Pictures series

NOICE MAGAZINE, September 3, 2017

Feature – Axial Tilt

BROAD MAGAZINE, July 2017

Friday Feature – Axial Tilt

STRANT MAGAZINE, July 2017

Pictures Without Words – VOL 001, ISS 002

BLENDED, June 2017

INTERVIEW WITH GRETCHEN GRACE, Axial Tilt

MESSY HAIR, December 2015

Available at Printed Matter/NYC, and Sock Monkey Press

DEEPSLEEP MAGAZINE, August 2013

SHOTS MAGAZINE; Summer 2013

POSI+TIVE MAGAZINE; July 2011

PORTFOLIO REVIEW: GRETCHEN GRACE

FILE MAGAZINE, August 2007

JPG MAGAZINE, March 2007

LECTURES & PODCASTS

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE PODCAST, July 19, 2024. "Two Way Street with Gretchen Grace", with Bob Patterson

SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS I3 PHOTO LECTURE, May 30, 2023

EXHIBITIONS