Ami Vitale's journey as a photographer and filmmaker has taken her to more than 85 countries where she has witnessed civil unrest and violence, but also surreal
beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit. Her photographs have been commissioned by nearly every important international publication including National Geographic, Time, New Yorker, Geo and Smithsonian, among others. These images have been exhibited around the world in museums, galleries and are part of numerous
private collections.

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 illustrating the very specific problems women in developing countries face and the programs that can help them.

In 2010, Ami was a Senior Producer for Multimedia, at the Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami School of Communication where she got
her Masters and made a film on women's pregnancy and infant mortality in Sierra Leone and a feature film about migration and climate change in Bangladesh. Now based in Montana, Vitale is a contract photographer with National Geographic magazine and her images are licensed through the National Geographic collection and Panos Pictures in London.