Amy Toensing is an American photojournalist who is known for her intimate essays about the lives of ordinary people.
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- 1 Life and work
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Life and work
Toensing obtained a bachelor’s degree in human ecology from the College of the Atlantic in Maine.
She began her professional career in 1994 as a staff photographer at her home town paper, The Valley News in New Hampshire. After that, she worked as a staff photographer at The New York Times in Washington D.C. during the Presidency under Bill Clinton. In 1998, Toensing left D.C. to receive her master’s degree from the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University.
Toensing has been contributing to National Geographic magazine over a decade. She has 13 published feature stories. She has covered many cultures, including those of the last remaining cave dwellers in Papua New Guinea and New Zealand’s Maori people. She has also covered issues such as the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina and Muslim women living in Western culture. Toensing spent more than four years documenting Indigenous Australians. This article was published in the June 2013 issue of National Geographic.
She is one of 11 featured women in National Geographic’s ongoing traveling exhibit, Women of Vision. This exhibit features photos taken by some of the magazine’s most talented women photojournalists.
In addition to her photojournalism work, Toensing teaches photography to kids and young adults in underserved 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.[citation needed]
Toensing is the daughter of lawyer and GOP operative Victoria Toensing and step-daughter of her law partner Joseph DiGenova.
Toensing lives in the Hudson Valley of New York with her husband Matt Moyer, who is also a photojournalist.
Last update 2021-08-06