Amy Arbus has been photographing professionally for nineteen years. Her photographs have appeared in over one hundred periodicals around the world, including The New Yorker, Egoiste, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Aperture, and The New York Time Magazine. Her advertising clients include American Express, Nickelodeon, New Line Cinema, and Christiano Fissore. From 1980 through 1991 her monthly page, "On the Street" appeared in the style section of The Village Voice. Her first book, No Place Like Home, portraits of people who live in unusual homes, was published by Doubleday & Company in 1986. Her second book, The Inconvenience of Being Born, is a photo essay on the extreme emotional nature of infants and was published by Fotofolio in 1999. She teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography, and the Maine Photographic and Toscana Photographic Workshops. She has had eight one-woman exhibitions worldwide, and her photographs are a part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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