 Ami Vitale is often described as a travel photographer, and given that she has worked in nearly 100 countries over the past 18 years you'd be forgiven for doing so. 艾米.维泰尔常常被描述成旅行摄影师，考虑到她在过去的十八年里去过了上百个国家，也难怪人们会如此认为。 Yet though her pictures are exquisitely beautiful and come from many exotic locations they go far deeper than traditional travel pictures, connecting the viewer to issues that are dear to her and of importance to society as a whole. 尽管她的照片非常漂亮也来自很多不同的野外的地点，它们不仅仅局限于传统的照片，而是能够能让观众联想到对她和对全世界来说很重要的事件上。 "While I do travel and witness extraordinary things, it's not simply about jetting off to exotic places," says Vitale. “我旅行去看那些壮观的事情的时候，其实不仅仅是想要飞到那些野外的地方去，”维泰尔说。 "The magic really begins when I stay in one place, often for years, to get beyond the surface and talk about the things that connect us." “真正的奇迹开始于我在一个地方久居，通常数年之后，能够越过表面真正找到能够联系彼此的东西。” This year Vitale is a nominee in the World Press Photo Awards for her pictures of the community-owned Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in northern Kenya. 今年维泰尔因为在北部肯尼亚社区所属的雷特利大象庇护所的作品而获得了世界新闻摄影奖的提名。 But her first step into the world of photography came when she gained an internship at a small newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the early 1990s. 她第一次踏入摄影界的机会却来自于在1990年代早期在北卡罗莱纳州的罗利市一家小报社的实习。 Later she worked as an editor for Associated Press and, as she puts it, one day built up the courage to quit and pursue her dream to be a foreign correspondent. 后来她在联合报做了编辑，用她自己的话说，工作一天就让她鼓起勇气辞了职去追求她的外国通讯记者的梦想。 After a spell on a newspaper in the Czech Republic, Vitale set off to cover the conflict in Kosovo,. 在捷克共和国一家报纸工作时，维泰尔开始去报道科索沃的冲突。 It was here she found the desire to turn her attention to stories that bring people together and reflect life beyond the latest headline. 在那里她开始有了想把注意力转到能够凝聚人心的故事上的渴望，而不再仅仅通过最新头条来反映生活。 "When we truly understand each other's stories, we are transformed, and no matter where you go, the joy of human emotions remains the same," she says. “当我们真正懂得了彼此的故事，我们会发生改变，无论去到哪里，人类的情感带来的快乐都是 一样的，”她说。 "The thing that really struck me after witnessing so much conflict and violence in my career is that every single issue I covered, whether it was war or poverty or health always ended up being dependent on nature for its outcomes. “在职业生涯中目睹了这么多的冲突和暴力之后，真正震撼我的事情是无论是战争，贫穷还是健康，最后的后果都与自然有关。” "I use nature as the foil to talk about our home, our future and where we are going. The whole point of all of this is to remind people that everything we eat and own is impacted by nature. 我通过自然来讨论我们的家园，我们的未来，以及我们将何去何从。所有这一切的目的是为了提醒人们我们所食用和拥有的一切都受到自然的影响。 "As a photographer the more I'm asked to document people and their issues, I realise I'm documenting nature, and the more I get asked to document nature, I realise I'm photographing people's lives. It's one and the same. “作为摄影师，我越是被要求记录人类和他们的时间，我越意识到我是在记录自然，我越是记录自然，同时也越意识到是在记录人们的生活。两者是一样的，一体的。” "In a world of seven billion people, we must see ourselves as part of the landscape. Our fate is linked to the fate of animals." “在全世界有七十亿人，我们必须把自己也看成是自然景观的一部分。我们的命运与动物的命运是息息相关的。” "Every story has a variety of viewpoints and truths depending on where you stand. 每个故事都有很多种视角，真相取决于你所站的角度。 It really takes tremendous time and patience to get to the subtleties and nuances of any story." 要找到每个故事的寓意和微妙之处需要耗费大量的时间和耐心。 Vitale often spends many years working on stories that are important to her, most recently making multiple trips to China for her award-winning pictures documenting the country's panda-breeding programme - as well as visits to northern Kenya to cover a story about indigenous communities protecting endangered species. 维泰尔通常会在她认为总要的事情上花多年的时间，最近她偶的次去到中国，并因拍摄了大熊猫保育项目而获奖—同时她还去到了肯尼亚北部报道了一个保护濒危物种的宗教团体。 "Everywhere I go, I see people, often with very little, making huge impacts in their communities and the planet. 无论走到哪里，我都可以看见人们用很小的事情却对自己的社区和地球做出巨大的贡献。 "I think it's just as important to shed some light on those stories, where against all odds, individuals are making a difference. 我觉得报道这些事情是很重要的，不管概率多少，一个人是可以做出改变的。 "This will be what saves us all." 这才是能够拯救我们人类的力量。 感谢关注 跟amber一起看世界 |
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