COFFEELAND: Images from Ethiopia in Afar Magazine
March 31, 2013 in Also posted in Coffee, Ethiopia, photography, travelCheck out this month's issue of AFAR travel magazine and the story "COFFEELAND" by writer David Farley. This was an epic journey across Ethiopia tracing the origination of coffee that goes back to the thirteenth century. Legend says that a herder named Kaldi noticed his goats "dancing" after nibbling bright red berries. Kaldi brought the berries to a nearby monastery where holy men declared they must be the work of ... Read More
Tags: Africa, Ceremony, Coffee, Ethiopia, photography
Over the Islands of Madagascar
July 17, 2011 in Also posted in Multimedia, Nature, Nikon, photographyThese are just the first few minutes of the documentary on my work in Madagascar. It will be available in full length as an app in the Apple appstore in July 2011. Over the Islands of Africa -- Madagascar The sounds of their names alone conjure up thoughts of pristine beaches, spices and the tales of a thousand and one nights. The five-part documentary series "Over the Islands ... Read More
Tags: Multimedia, photography, TV
Guinea Bissau: Rediscovering the Soul of a Forgotten Land
July 17, 2011 in Also posted in Multimedia, Uncategorized, conflict, contests, grantsI recently returned to the West African country of Guinea-Bissau on a generous grant from the Alexia foundation to revisit a village where I began my career as a photographer ten years ago. Young and very green, I had applied for a grant from them back in 2000, on a whim. To my delight and horror, I got it – even beating out some National Geographic photographers I heard, who had also applied that year. I had no idea what I was doing and ... Read More
Tags: Africa, photography
Madagascar
November 16, 2010 in Also posted in Multimedia, Nikon, photography, travelI'm back from Madagascar where I spent a month before the holidays, discovering the island for a TV show called "Maritime Africa". It will be a five-part documentary series about the islands around Africa. SWR/ARTE (German and French public TV) and twelve other European stations will air the show that will be about the islands, their people and the distinct cultures as I document it for a coffee table book. It was a privilege to work with this incredibly talented group of people. Check ... Read More
Tags: Multimedia, photography, TV
United Nations Millennium Goals Multimedia project
September 8, 2010 in Also posted in conflict, contestsIn 2010, I made a short film in Sierra Leone on maternal health which is now online on LinkTV. http://www.linktv.org/viewchangefilmcontest/films/view/851 Sierra Leone has among the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. In 2009, it is estimated that one in eight women died during pregnancy. To get some perspective, one in 47,600 women ... Read More
Sierra Leone: Where every pregnancy is a gamble.
May 6, 2010 in Also posted in Maternal health, Sierra Leone, photography, preganancySome of the images in this video are graphic and viewers may find them disturbing. Sierra Leone has among the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. In 2009, it is estimated that one in eight women died during pregnancy. To get some perspective, one in 47,600 women die in pregnancy in Ireland. The reasons are complex but in part it is due to an insufficient health care system. In the capital of Freetown, one doctor has to serve more than 100,000 people. Getting drugs and equipment ... Read More
Return to Sierra Leone
March 24, 2010 in Also posted in Multimedia, Nikon, conflict, photography, travel, warI am leaving tomorrow to Freetown, Sierra Leone filled with feelings of anxiety as well as hope. The last time I was there was just a few months after the brutal civil war ended in 2002 that claimed tens of thousands of lives and left more than a third of its population displaced. Yet it is the unspeakable atrocities that are so haunting. I remember back in 1999, Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora, a friend and extremely committed journalist, who was later killed covering the conflict, told me stories ... Read More
Flight for Survival: How it happened?
March 12, 2010 in Also posted in horns, photography, poaching, rhinos, travel, zooThey are huge but gentle, lumbering beasts and there are only eight left on the entire planet. Scientists believe the magnificent Northern White rhinos are nearly extinct. There are rumors of some, a few at best, in Southern Sudan but none have been seen for many years now. These eight, two in the San Diego Zoo and six in the Dvur Kralove Zoo in cold, snowy Czech Republic ... Read More
Flight for Survival: Rhinos go back to Africa
March 9, 2010 in Also posted in Europe, Kenya, Multimedia, Nature, Nikon, extinction, horns, photography, poaching, rhinos, travelView the story at msnbc.com They are huge but gentle, lumbering beasts and there are only eight left on the entire planet. Scientists believe the magnificent Northern White rhinos are nearly extinct. In a last ditch effort to save this species from extinction, the Lewa Conservancy in Kenya cut a deal to airlift the last four breeding age animals from the Czech Zoo to live "free" on the savannas of Kenya. You ... Read More
Where can I find interviews about your career?
September 29, 2009 in Also posted in F.A.Q., India, Interviews, Kashmir, Multimedia, Seminar, Websites, conflict, internet, photography, travel, workshopsThis is a blog for Nikon Professional Services where I talk about my style and equipment used on assignment. http://nps.nikonimaging.com/members/ami_vitale/ The talented Steve Casimiro, a photographer and editor for National Geographic's Adventure magazine has created a wonderful blog called the Adventure Life. I was honored that he invited me for this interview. Read More
