While traveling the region and the world for various jobs in international relief and development, she has captured the people and places in sensitive, socially-aware photographs that aim to widen the viewer’s perspective. She currently works in conservation of native fish, vegetation, and water resources in the desert Southwest, and is a photographer for the Mariposa Foundation, which helps to empower and educate adolescent girls living in extreme poverty in the Dominican Republic. www.amysmartinphotography.com