Specialties
Adventure,
People,
Photojournalism
Bio
Ami Vitale, best known for her cultural documentation has been named Magazine Photographer of the Year and received recognition for her work from World Press Photo, the NPPA, International Photos of the Year, Photo District News. The South Asian Journalists Association presented her with the Daniel Pearl Award for outstanding print reporting on South Asia and her stories have been awarded grants including the first-ever Inge Morath grant by Magnum Photos, The Canon female photojournalist award for her work in Kashmir and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace.
Vitale's photographs have been published in major international magazines such as National Geographic, Adventure, Geo, Newsweek, Time and Smithsonian among others. They have also been presented in international exhibitions including: Visa Pour L'Image, Perpignan, France; Reporters Sans Frontiers, Paris; the FotoArt Festival in Poland; the Open Society Institute and The United Nations in New York.
Now based in Washington, DC, Vitale has just finished a project for the Nature Conservancy about threatened environments around the world that will open at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in NY in May 2009. She is also a member of the Executive Advisory Committee of the Alexia Foundation's Board of Directors.
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