A look at the life and work of conservationist photographer Ami Vitale.
Photographing wild animals is always a dangerous sport, you may think. But think again.
“This huge man saw my translator and tried to grab her, and I literally jumped into the middle of him and told her to run away. He grabbed me, and his whole hand was so huge it fit all the way around my neck, and he lifted me, put his sweaty face up to mine, and screamed at me in Russian. “I went on to start my documentary work as a teenager, learning about the discrimination and disparities between schools in Durham, NC, for African American communities and those for white children. Children in the black communities were taught hairdressing and mechanics while kids in the white schools were offered robotics and advanced classes.”
Blind, nearly hairless, squeaky, and 1/900 the size of its mother, a newborn panda is as needy as it gets. But it won’t be for long: The panda is among the fastest-growing mammal, increasing from around four ounces to four pounds in its first month. “They are taking captive-born pandas and releasing them back into the wild. They are investing billions into creating more habitats and connecting corridors. This is possibly the biggest reforestation program happening on the planet right now. It’s one of the few countries where forest coverage is growing.
A girl collects water in the village of Anbar Somuch, Afghanistan. Women and girls spend 200 million collective hours daily seeking and hauling water for their communities, a task that steals their time and potentialToday there are only two northern white rhinos alive, both in Kenya at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, and they are both females. In March 2018, Sudan, the last male, died surrounded by the people who loved and protected him.
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