About amanda rivkin, photographer
Amanda Rivkin, 25, is a photojournalist currently based in Washington D.C. Her work has been featured on the front pages of Le Monde, The New York Times, and The Washington Post and in international publications Foreign Policy, The London Sunday Times Magazine, Newsweek, and others.
In 2007, Amanda began her journalism career as an intern with The Associated Press in Madrid, before photographing for The Associated Press and BBC Focus on Africa Magazine in Ethiopia during the Coptic Millennium. In 2008 Amanda relocated to her hometown, Chicago. There she photographed for publications including The New York Times, where she was a regular contributor for nearly one year, in addition to work for Agence France Presse, Courrier Japon, The Financial Times, Le Monde, Newsweek and others.
In Chicago, Amanda covered Barack Obama's election night victory, transition to the presidency and historic inauguration, the corruption scandal surrounding Rod Blagojevich and his final day in the Illinois governor's office when she was the sole photographer to shadow him for The New York Times. Her work focused on the financial crisis and its impact on people and industry of the Midwestern United States, public housing, education and immigration. Amanda's work has been exhibited in Chicago, Washington D.C. and Aleppo, Syria.
Currently Amanda is based in Washington D.C. where she attends the security studies master's degree program at the Georgetown University Edmund Walsh Graduate School of Foreign Service after receiving a significant merit-based scholarship in 2009. She speaks fluent English, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish and is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York.
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amanda rivkin, photographer
www.amandarivkin.com
amanda.rivkin@gmail.com
+1.312.218.1059
In 2007, Amanda began her journalism career as an intern with The Associated Press in Madrid, before photographing for The Associated Press and BBC Focus on Africa Magazine in Ethiopia during the Coptic Millennium. In 2008 Amanda relocated to her hometown, Chicago. There she photographed for publications including The New York Times, where she was a regular contributor for nearly one year, in addition to work for Agence France Presse, Courrier Japon, The Financial Times, Le Monde, Newsweek and others.
In Chicago, Amanda covered Barack Obama's election night victory, transition to the presidency and historic inauguration, the corruption scandal surrounding Rod Blagojevich and his final day in the Illinois governor's office when she was the sole photographer to shadow him for The New York Times. Her work focused on the financial crisis and its impact on people and industry of the Midwestern United States, public housing, education and immigration. Amanda's work has been exhibited in Chicago, Washington D.C. and Aleppo, Syria.
Currently Amanda is based in Washington D.C. where she attends the security studies master's degree program at the Georgetown University Edmund Walsh Graduate School of Foreign Service after receiving a significant merit-based scholarship in 2009. She speaks fluent English, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish and is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York.
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amanda rivkin, photographer
www.amandarivkin.com
amanda.rivkin@gmail.com
+1.312.218.1059