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Amy Snyder
Director of Photography
Amy Snyder creates, curates, and edits imagery that strongly communicates to a wide and diverse audience. She works in collaboration with scientists, artists, educators, designers, and other media producers. Amy was the lead photographer, often shaping the visual narrative, for award-winning Exploratorium websites including Driven: True Stories of Inspiration; Never Lost: Polynesian Navigation; Science of Gardening; and Science of Music. She curated the first-ever Photography After Dark event, which featured over 25 presenters, for the Exploratorium’s popular After Dark evening series. She coauthored Sustain, Build, and Under, three books that focus on the process of building the Exploratorium’s new home. Her award-winning work has been published in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Sunset magazine, Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many educational textbooks.
Driven
How are creative investigations sparked? What does a state of inspiration feel like? Can inspiration be transmitted from person to person? Join us for an audio slideshow series that explores the fascinating world of how we work creatively.
Never Lost: Polynesian Navigation
Imagine yourself in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean. You've been sailing for weeks, and there's no land in sight. Do you know where you are? Do you know which way to go?
