Ami Vitale
Ami Vitale is a U.S. photojournalist, documentary filmmaker, educator, and speaker. In 2018, she published a photo book titled Panda Love which captures pandas within captivity and being released into the wild.
Ami Vitale
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- Name
- Ami Vitale
- Birthplace
- Florida, United States
- Occupation
- Photojournalist Documentary filmmaker
- Born
- 1971
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- University of Miami
- Honours
- Canon Female Photojournalist Grant
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Ami Vitale is a U.S. photojournalist, documentary filmmaker, educator, and speaker. In 2018, she published a photo book titled Panda Love which captures pandas within captivity and being released into the wild.
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Ami Vitale (born 1971) is an American documentary filmmaker, journalist and photographer, among other activities. The documentary filmmaker studied at University of Miami. Ami Vitale received Canon Female Photojournalist Grant.
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Key facts
• Name — Ami Vitale • Birthplace — Florida, United States • Occupation — Photojournalist Documentary filmmaker
Early life and education
Early life and education
Vitale was born in Florida. She realized the potential of photography at a young age. She has a degree in International Studies from the University of North Carolina.
Writing
Writing
Vitale is an author, contributor and frequently writes corresponding articles with her photojournalistic works.
Identity
Identity
Ami Vitale is recorded as photographer, photojournalist, journalist, documentary filmmaker and picture editor.
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Life and career
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Life and career
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1971
Ami Vitale was born in 1971.
Photography and filmmaking
In 1994, Vitale joined the Associated Press (AP) as a picture editor in New York and Washington, D.C. She self funded her travel through her work with AP and left for the Czech Republic in 1997. She moved to Prague, Czechia, 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. 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. 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. Vitale is a founding member of Ripple Effect Images, as well as a member of the Photojournalism Advisory Council for the Alexia Foundation.
Books by Vitale
Books by Vitale
• Panda Love: the Secret Lives of Pandas (2018) – author, photographer
Books with contributions of photography by Vitale
Books with contributions of photography by Vitale
• Associated Press: Guide to Photojournalism (2000) by Brian Horton • National Geographic: The Most Popular Instagram Photos (2016) • Seeing it All: Women Photographers Expose our Planet. 2024
Films
• Independent Lens (2010) – camera development • PBS Frontline World (2007) – reporter • Bangladesh: A Climate Trap (2019) – director, co-writer • Shaba (2021) – director
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- VIAF cluster 80526002 for Ami Vitale, aggregating national library name authorities.
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- “Ami Vitale”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards
• 2003: General News, third prize stories, World Press Photo, Amsterdam • 2005: People in the News, second prize stories, World Press Photo, Amsterdam • 2015: Nature, second prize singles, World Press Photo, Amsterdam • 2017: Nature, second prize stories, World Press Photo, Amsterdam • 2017: Science & Natural History Picture Story, third place, Pictures of the Year International • 2018: Nature, first prize stories, World Press Photo, Amsterdam • 2020: Wildlife Photographer of the Year, nomination • 2020: National Geographic Photo of the Decade • 2024: Honorary Fellowship, The Royal Photographic Society
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- 1.Ami Vitale. nikonusa.com.
- 2.BBC World Service - The Conversation, Women Behind the Lens. BBC.
- 3.Liu, Evangeline. Finding Love: Ami Vitale on Documenting Pandas. HS Insider. 2018-08-06.
- 4.Ami Vitale Advocates for Mother Earth. B&H Explora.
- 5.Ami Vitale: Getting Beyond the Headlines - The Digital Journalist. digitaljournalist.org.
- 6.Schonauer, David. AI-AP Profiles. ai-ap.com. April 7, 2015.
- 7.Markisz, Susan. Ami Vitale: Getting Beyond the Headlines. digitaljournalist.org. January 2003.
- 8.Ami Vitale Advocates for Mother Earth. B&H Explora.
- 9.Ami Vitale. National Geographic Expeditions. 2018-06-28.
- 10.Ami Vitale. www.worldpressphoto.org.
- 11.Ami Vitale. rippleeffectimages.org.
- 12.Panda Love by Ami Vitale. HardieGrant.
- 13.Horton, Brian. Associated Press Guide to Photojournalism. McGraw-Hill Education. 2001. 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.
- 15.Seeing It All: Women Photographers Expose our Planet. Field Museum Store.
- 16.2003 Ami Vitale GNS3-AL. World Press Photo.
- 17.2005 Ami Vitale PNS2-AL. World Press Photo.
- 18.Orphaned Rhino. World Press Photo.
- 19.Pandas Gone Wild. World Press Photo.
- 20.Third Place Science & Natural History Picture Story. www.poy.org.
- 21.Warriors Who Once Feared Elephants Now Protect Them. World Press Photo.
- 22.25 People's Choice Finalists from the 2020 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest. petapixel.com. December 2020.
- 23.Ami Vitale Photo Voted Best of Decade by National Geographic Readers. PDNPulse. 2020-01-02.
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