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Greetings!
A short, personal note before I
begin with the usual business. Thank you as always for your continued
support of my work. It means a great amount to me these days as I
have been struggling a lot to get my feet off the ground since
moving to New York a few short months ago. The small gestures of
support, kind words regarding my work, and print purchases have
meant a great amount to me. Thank you.
I am holding an unprecedented
holiday print sale in an effort to raise money for my upcoming trip
to Hungary to cover the aftermath of the alumina industrial
accident in the village of Ajka, which sent a flood of toxic red
sludge pouring into the surrounding towns and countryside, marking
the country's worst ecological disaster.
For the awesomely low price of
$75 each (or $50 for student), I am offering up 17 different prints
to choose from as part of this sale. Of course, if you see
something you like more, drop me a note at
amanda.rivkin@gmail.com.
To order, please send an e-mail request to
amanda.rivkin@gmail.com stating which print and
where to send it to. As I am a registered PayPal merchant, you can
now pay by credit card as you would with any other electronic
invoice! The big advantage to ordering now is that your print will
ship immediately after the Thanksgiving break, so please do not
wait!
VIEW THE 17 PRINTS
FOR $75 EACH
And thank you for your
support!
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As I also noted in my last e-mail,
two fellow Sarah Lawrence alums, Samantha Hinds and Adam Whitney
Nichols, have combined forces (we do that) to produce the awesome
Fortnight Journal. For my
second bi-weekly contribution I wrote about "The Moment" I photographed as
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan threw a book from a campaign
bus that landed squarely on my head.
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Lastly, some brief upcoming travel notes.
I will be in Hungary from November 18-29 covering the aftermath of
the industrial accident in Ajka.
After I return, I will be traveling to Chicago for much of the
month (Dec. 10-30) in an effort to cover as much as I can of the
Chicago special mayoral election. For editors familiar with my
work covering Obama and Blagojevich, I hope this is an opportunity
not just for me but for you to share work with your readers that
reflects a scope of understanding of not just the story but the
political environment. With the election date set for February 22,
my goal is to be available for Chicago assignments in this time
frame as well.
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As always, thank you very much for your ongoing interest in my
work.
Sincerely,
Amanda Rivkin
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amanda rivkin, photographer
www.amandarivkin.com
amanda.rivkin@gmail.com
+1.312.218.1059
currently in new york city.
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About
Amanda Rivkin, photographer
Amanda Rivkin has been able to obtain
unique access to seldom-encountered places such as the
Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli offshore oil fields in the Caspian Sea,
becoming the first photojournalist ever to do so, a communist sect
organizing for the coming revolution in the Cabrini Green housing
project in Chicago and prominent personalities few have privileged
chance to witness at important moments, such as former Illinois
Governor Rod Blagojevich during his final day in office. Her work
is regularly featured in The New York Times since 2008 as well as
in Foreign Policy and Newsweek and has appeared in exhibitions in
Chicago, Washington D.C., Spain and Syria.
Amanda's work has been honored with several
honorable mentions in the deeper perspective, photo essay and
political categories of the Lucie Foundation International
Photography Awards for images of Barack Obama, Rod Blagojevich and
Cuba. In late 2009, her work covering former Illinois Governor Rod
Blagojevich was featured in the Year in Pictures in both Newsweek's
print edition and The New York Times online and will be featured in
the forthcoming American Photography 26 best of anthology. She was
the co-creator and co-author of the "Turning Point" series of
interviews with young photographers on The New York Times Lens blog
that ran from August-October of 2010. She received a Young
Explorers Grant from the Expeditions Council of the National
Geographic Society to travel to the Caucuses and eastern Turkey in
2010 to begin work on a project under the working title "Exploring
the Evolving Oil Economy: the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline," a
journey along nearly 1,100 miles, traversing three countries,
believers in two of the world's great religions that also skirts
five different conflict zones to deliver Caspian crude oil and
liquid natural gas to the West, providing energy independence and
financial resources for a region accustomed to relying on
neighboring Russia and Iran.
She has received a BBC Training Bursary
from the Rory Peck Trust for Hazardous Environment and First Aid
Training (HEFAT) with Centurion Risk Assessment, a John J. McCloy
Fellowship in Journalism from the American Council on Germany, and
is the recipient of a merit scholarship at Georgetown University's
Edmund Walsh Graduate School of Foreign Service in the Security
Studies Program. She is a graduate of the Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism and Sarah Lawrence College. Amanda
speaks fluent Spanish, Portuguese and Polish and is currently based
in Brooklyn, New York.
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STILL ON SALE:
SPECTACULAR SLOVAKIA 2010
GUIDE
with images and text by Amanda
Rivkin
To order online: travel.spectator.sk
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Amanda
Rivkin, photographer
www.amandarivkin.com
Currently in New York City
u.s. cell: +1.312.218.1059
e-mail: amanda.rivkin@gmail.com
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