Amy Snyder

Background

About Amy Snyder

Amy Snyder is the Director Of Photography at the Exploratorium, where she creates curates, and edits imagery that strongly communicates to a wide and diverse audience. She has been the lead photographer, often shaping the visual narrative, for award-winning websites including Driven: True Stories of Inspiration; Never Lost: Polynesian Navigation (funded by NASA), Science of Gardening and Science of Music. For the Exploratorium’s very popular adult-only Afterdark series, she curated the first ever Photography Afterdark, a program which featured over 25 presenters. Also, she co-authored three books, Sustain, Build and Under, on the process of building the new Exploratorium Museum. She often works in collaboration with scientists, artists, educators, designers and other media producers. Her 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. She has received numerous awards for her photography including being selected for Sotheby’s Young International Artist Program. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally. Amy received a BA in German from the University of Michigan and an MFA with the highest distinction from the California College of Arts.