Amy Toensing
Amy Toensing is an American photojournalist who is known for her intimate essays about the lives of ordinary people.
Life and work
Toensing obtained a bachelor's degree in human ecology from the College of the Atlantic in Maine.[1]
Toensing began her professional career in 1994 as a staff photographer at her home town paper, The Valley News in New Hampshire. She then worked for The New York Times, Washington D.C. bureau covering the White House and Capitol Hill during the Presidency of Bill Clinton. In 1998, Toensing left D.C. to receive her Master’s Degree from the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University.[1]
Toensing has been a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine for over a decade. She has covered cultures around the world including the last cave dwelling tribe of Papua New Guinea, the Māori people of New Zealand and the Kingdom of Tonga. She has also covered issues such as the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina and Muslim women living in Western culture.[1] She has documented Indigenous Australians which was published in National Geographic.
In addition to her photojournalism work, Toensing teaches photography to kids and young adults in undeserved communities. This includes working with nonprofit organization Vision Workshops on projects including teaching photography to Somali and Sudanese refugees in Maine and Burmese refugees in Baltimore. She traveled to Islamabad to teach young Pakistanis photojournalism and cover their own communities.
Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, and National Geographic Traveler.
Toensing lives in the Hudson Valley of New York with her husband Matt Moyer, who is also a photojournalist.[1]
Award
- A photograph she took in the Australian outback was chosen as one of National Geographic magazine’s all time 50 Best Photos.
Exhibition
- 2012 Visa pour l'image, Festival of the Photograph, Perpignan, France.
- Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Amy Toensing". National Geographic. Archived from the original on April 16, 2014. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
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