Visual
Communication Student Photographed Jesse
Jackson's Trip to
Yugoslavia
A
graduate student in the Ohio University
School
of Visual
Communication
was hired by the Rev. Jesse Jackson to
document his recent mission to Yugoslavia
where he obtained the release of three
American prisoners. Jackson hired
photographer Amy Toensing to document his
trip which began April 28 when he led an
interfaith delegation of American
religious leaders to appeal to President
Slobodan Milosevic to free the
prisoners.
Toensing
did double duty on the trip, toting a
laptop computer and equipment provided her
by the New York Times. Her
photograph of citizens cowering on
Belgrade streets during a NATO bombing was
published in the Times May 1, accompanying
a story headlined: "Bombs Pound Heart and
Homes of Serbia's Capital."
A
1993 graduate of Maine's College of the
Atlantic, Toensing became interested in
photography her senior year when her photo
essay of migrant broccoli farmers in rural
Maine won first place in the documentary
category of a nationwide college
photography contest. She began graduate
school at Ohio last fall when she met
Jackson who was on a tour of
Appalachia.
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