In 1998 Amanda Friedman received her BFA in Photography from The Rochester Institute of Technology. Since then, her photographs have been included in The New York Times, The London Sunday Telegraph, Travel Leisure, Time, Newsweek and Budget Travel. She was a 1999 Surface Magazine Avant Guardian, a 2008 Critical Mass Finalist and placed first for photo essay in the 2011 PDN / National Geographic Traveler World in Focus Contest.