AMANDA RIVKIN | PHOTOGRAPHER

Amanda Rivkin, born in 1984, is an American photojournalist based in Baku, Azerbaijan. Rivkin began her career as a print journalism intern at the Associated Press in Madrid in 2007, and later spent time developing several photography projects in Ethiopia and her hometown of Chicago.

An Italian tourist prays inside the only remaining synagogue in Córdoba’s jewish quarter.

Baku, Azerbaijan 2010

Between 2008-2009 she covered the Midwest region of the United States focusing on local politics, the financial crisis and social issues with The New York Times as a primary client. She soon began working on assignment for clients such as Courrier Japan, The Financial Times, Le Monde and Newsweek.

Chi Cultural Center

Energy Baku Tbilisi ceyhan pipeline armenian ruins (Skirting Ancient Ruins)

Energy Baku Tbilisi ceyhan pipeline armenian ruins (Setting the Table for Change)

In 2009 she received a merit-based scholarship to Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service for security studies, and began to focus on photographing abroad. Rivkin received a Young Explorers Grant from the National Geographic Society in 2010 to photograph life along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. In 2011 she was awarded a Fulbright fellowship in photography to return to Azerbaijan.

Energy Baku Tbilisi ceyhan pipeline armenian ruins (The Start of the Line)

Energy Baku Tbilisi ceyhan pipeline armenian ruins (The View From a Distance)

Energy Baku Tbilisi ceyhan pipeline armenian ruins (A New World Unveiled)

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia

All images  © Amanda Rivkin