Category | Africa

Sierra Leone: Where every pregnancy is uncertain.

May 6, 2010 in Also posted in Maternal health, Sierra Leone, photography, preganancy

Some 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, war

I 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, zoo

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. 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, travel

View 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, workshops

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.http://www.theadventurelife.org/2009/07/ami-vitales-beautiful-cultures-and-powerful-documentary/ Field Notes from a National Geographic story I did on the ... Read More

Guinea Bissau

September 2, 2009 in Also posted in Guinea Bissau, Uncategorized, photography

Adema Balde washes near her family's rice fields in the village of Dembel Jumpora located in the West African country of Guinea ... Read More

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