Bio

Amanda Voisard is a freelance visual journalist based out of Istanbul, Turkey. Amanda is currently pursuing her masters degree in multimedia photojournalism from Syracuse University and recenlty completed a summer internship in the photo deptartment at The Washington Post. She is a graduate of Ohio University, and worked as a staff photographer from 2006 to 2009 at The Palm Beach Post in south Florida. Prior to her experience in Florida, she was a staff photographer in Watertown, N.Y.

Visual journalism, as a craft of photography, video and writing, fulfills the storyteller in Amanda. She credits her family for her creativity and looks to her late father, a modern artist and sculptor, for motivation and inspiration.

Her work has been published in various newspapers, magazines, and online publications including The Washington Post, New York TImes, The Palm Beach Post, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Watertown Daily Times, Farmington Daily Times, MSNBC.com, TIME.com, MLB.com. FoxNews Sports, NE Law Magazine, Veterans Magazine, and The Advocate.

photo by: Meghan McCarthy