Ami Vitale

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Ami Vitale
Ami Vitale - World Press Photo Festival 2018 portrait.jpg
Ami Vitale at World Press Photo Festival 2018.
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s) photojournalist
documentary filmmaker

Ami Vitale is an American photojournalist, documentary filmmaker, educator and speaker. [1] [2] In 2018, she published a photo book titled Panda Love which captures pandas within captivity and being released into the wild. [3]

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Early life and education

Vitale was born in Florida. She realized the potential of photography at a young age. [4]

She has a degree in International Studies from the University of North Carolina.

Photography and filmmaking

In 1994, Vitale joined the Associated Press (AP) as a picture editor in New York and Washington, D.C. [5] [6] She self funded her travel through her work with AP and left for the Czech Republic in 1997. [7]

She moved to Prague, Czech Republic, and spent a year covering the war in Kosovo, traveling back and forth to Prague, and spending a month at a time in the war zone. She later traveled to Angola, and then to the second Intifada in Gaza and Israel. In 2000, she received an Alexia Foundation grant to document a small village in the West African nation of Guinea Bissau. [8]

Vitale currently photographs wildlife and environmental stories in order to educate about global conservation issues. She is a visual journalist working as a photographer for National Geographic , a documentary filmmaker, and a cinematographer. [9] Her recent still photography focuses on wildlife conservation in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. As an ambassador for Nikon and a contract photographer with National Geographic magazine, she has documented wildlife and poaching in Africa, covered human-wildlife conflict, and concentrated on efforts to save the northern white rhino and reintroduce pandas to the wild. [10]

Vitale is a founding member of Ripple Effect Images, as well as a member of the Photojournalism Advisory Council for the Alexia Foundation. [11]

Writing

Vitale is an author, contributor and frequently writes corresponding articles with her photojournalistic works.

Publications

Books by Vitale

Books with contributions of photography by Vitale

Films

Awards

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  2. ↑ "BBC World Service - The Conversation, Women Behind the Lens". BBC. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  3. ↑ Liu, Evangeline (2018-08-06). "Finding Love: Ami Vitale on Documenting Pandas". HS Insider. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
  4. ↑ "Ami Vitale Advocates for Mother Earth". B&H Explora. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
  5. ↑ "Ami Vitale: Getting Beyond the Headlines - The Digital Journalist". digitaljournalist.org. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  6. ↑ Schonauer, David (April 7, 2015). "AI-AP Profiles". ai-ap.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-11.
  7. ↑ Markisz, Susan (January 2003). "Ami Vitale: Getting Beyond the Headlines". digitaljournalist.org. Archived from the original on 2003-01-17.
  8. ↑ "Ami Vitale Advocates for Mother Earth". B&H Explora. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  9. ↑ "Ami Vitale". National Geographic Expeditions. 2018-06-28. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
  10. ↑ "Ami Vitale". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  11. ↑ "Ami Vitale". rippleeffectimages.org. Archived from the original on 2020-08-10.
  12. ↑ "Panda Love by Ami Vitale". HardieGrant. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  13. ↑ Horton, Brian (2001). Associated Press Guide to Photojournalism. McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN   978-0-07-136387-7.
  14. ↑ "@NATGEO: THE MOST POPULAR INSTAGRAM PHOTOS From the No. 1 Media Brand on Instagram". National Geographic Partners. 2016-09-09. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  15. ↑ "2003 Ami Vitale GNS3-AL". World Press Photo. Archived from the original on 2018-05-10. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  16. ↑ "2005 Ami Vitale PNS2-AL". World Press Photo. Archived from the original on 2018-05-10. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  17. ↑ "Orphaned Rhino". World Press Photo. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  18. ↑ "Pandas Gone Wild". World Press Photo. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
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