Guinea Bissau: Rediscovering the Soul of a Forgotten Land
July 17, 2011 in Also posted in Africa, Multimedia, Uncategorized, 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
United Nations Millennium Goals Multimedia project
September 8, 2010 in Also posted in Africa, 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
Return to Sierra Leone
March 24, 2010 in Also posted in Africa, Multimedia, Nikon, 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
Where can I find interviews about your career?
September 29, 2009 in Also posted in Africa, F.A.Q., India, Interviews, Kashmir, Multimedia, Seminar, Websites, 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
Israel/Palestine
September 2, 2009 in Also posted in Israel, Palestine, photography, warA young teenage Palestinian couple defy a curfew and dance together during their wedding ceremony in the West Bank city of Nablus. A British non-governmental agency recently reported that Palestinians are currently living in a state of extreme, worsening poverty and fear for their future. Almost three-quarters of Palestinians now live on less than US$2 a day, below the United Nations poverty ... Read More
