Learn About Me - Amiran White: Photography in the Present Tense

<body> <h1> | Amiran White: Photography in the Present Tense</h1> <h2>Amiran White: Photography in the Present Tense</h2> <div>Portland, Oregon photojournalist and documentary photographer, Amiran White</div> <span class="links"><a href="index.html" target="_top"><font color="#bbbbbb">Single Images</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><strong><a href="portfolio.html" target="_top"><font color="#ffffff">See Stories I've Told</font></a></strong></span>   <span class="links"><a href="content.html?page=4" target="_top"><font color="#bbbbbb">Contact Me</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="content.html?page=5" target="_top"><font color="#bbbbbb">Read Articles I have written</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="content.html?page=6" target="_top"><font color="#bbbbbb"><a href="http://amiranphoto.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Read My Blog</a></font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="content.html?page=7" target="_top"><font color="#bbbbbb">Buy A Print</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="content.html?page=8" target="_top"><font color="#bbbbbb">Learn About Me</font></a></span> <div> <table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                         </p> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <img alt="" src="file:///me1.jpg" />                                           <div style="text-align: justify;">                                                                    </div> <p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                        <img alt="" height="176" src="/users/AmiranWhite1640/Image//L1025943.jpg" width="125" /></p> <p>  </p> <p> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;">Born and raised in the United Kingdom, Amiran White began her photojournalism career in North America stringing for The Associated Press in Portland, Ore. From there she spent 10-years working as a staff photographer on various daily newspapers in Oregon, Pennsylvania and New Mexico before freelancing as a photojournalist.</span></span></span></p> <p> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;">Amiran has since traveled through Central America, India and England as an independent photographer and has recently returned to the states, basing herself in Oregon.</span></span></span></p> <p> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;">Amiran has won a variety of awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Associated Press, World Press, National Press Photographers' Association, Editor & Publisher and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She's also earned the Community Awareness Award from the 60th Photographer of the Year International and the 2003 Golden Light Award for her documentary work. Most recently, she won a first place with the 2009 Sony World Photography Awards and received an honorable mention in the 2010 Atlanta Photojournalism contest.</span></span></span></p> <p> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2010, Amiran had work in the Positive View exhibition at Somerset House in London and in the Panda Gallery in New York City.</span></span></span></p> <p> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif;">Her work has also recently appeared in The Oregonian, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Geo Saison, Visual Anthropology Review, on the Reuters News Wire, MSNBC.com and with Zuma Press.</span></span></span></p> <p>  </p> <p> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: larger;">T</span><span style="font-size: larger;">o contact Amiran, please call: 1 (347) 819 8339 or email: </span></span><a href="mailto:amiran@amiranphoto.com"><span style="font-size: larger;">amiran@amiranphoto.com <br /> </span></a></p> <p>                                                                                                                                                                                           </p> </div> <div> </body>