Photojournalist Amy Toensing has been on assignment for national and international publications such as National Geographic magazine, the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, and the Boston Globe.
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Toensing began her professional career in 1994 as a staff photographer at her hometown paper, the Valley News in Hanover, New Hampshire. She then worked three years in Washington, D.C., covering the White House and Capitol Hill for the New York Times. In 1998, Toensing left D.C. to receive her master's degree in photography from the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. Since 2000, she has been freelancing for various editorial publications and private organizations and is a regular contributor to National Geographic.
Toensing's stories are intimate essays reflecting the lives of ordinary people. In Puerto Rico she portrayed the diverse cultural heritage of an island influenced by outside rule for more than 500 years (National Geographic, March 2003). Her coverage of Monhegan Island, a winter lobstering and artist community off the Maine coast, documented the way of life in this remote outpost (National Geographic, July 2001).
In 2003 Toensing was named the Photographic Alumni Fellow at the SALT Center for Documentary Field Studies in Portland, Maine, where she continued a long-term project on Muslim teenage girls living in Western culture.
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