Ami Vitale | |
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![]() Ami Vitale at World Press Photo Festival 2018. | |
Nationality | American |
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]
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.
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]
Vitale is an author, contributor and frequently writes corresponding articles with her photojournalistic works.
Ami Vitale | |
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![]() Ami Vitale at World Press Photo Festival 2018. | |
Nationality | American |
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]
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.
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]
Vitale is an author, contributor and frequently writes corresponding articles with her photojournalistic works.