Ami Vitale

Who is Ami Vitale?

Ami Vitale is an American photojournalist and documentary film maker. She has a degree in International Studies from the University of North Carolina and received her Masters at the University of Miami. Her photographs have been exhibited around the world in museums and galleries and published in international magazines including National Geographic, Geo, Newsweek, Time and Smithsonian, among others. She is an internationally known and respected journalist whose work has garnered multiple World Press Photos awards, the Photographer of the Year International award, the Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism, Lucie awards, the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting, and the Magazine Photographer of the Year award by the National Press Photographers Association.

She has been working most recently with Ripple Effect Images, an organization of well-known scientists, writers, photographers and filmmakers with a mission of creating powerful and persuasive films and stories stories illustrating the very specific problems women in developing countries face and the programs that can help them.

She has been the subject of the five-part documentary series “Over the Islands of Africa” and a featured speaker in more than 20 countries from China to Chile.