amanda rivkin, photographer

Images #32-#34 on The Denver Post website online photo gallery, “Rod Blagojevich Gets 14 Years in Prison for Corruption,” today feature my work covering Rod Blagojevich in 2008-2009:

“CHICAGO—Rod Blagojevich, the ousted Illinois governor whose three-year battle against criminal charges became a national spectacle, was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday, December 7, 2011, one of the stiffest penalties imposed for corruption in a state with a history of crooked politics. Blagojevich’s 18 convictions included allegations of trying to leverage his power to appoint someone to President Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat to raise campaign cash or land a high-paying job.”

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(FILES) Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich attends a press conference at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, on February 15, 2008. according to the Chicago Tribune on December 9, 2008 Blagojevich was taken into federal custody at his North Side home this morning. The governor’s administration has been the subject of a federal investigation into whether contracts and jobs were being traded for contributions to Blagojevich’s campaign fund. The investigation has been expanded to include allegations of wrongdoing in selecting a successor for President -elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat. AFP PHOTO/Amanda Rivkin/FILES (Photo credit should read Amanda Rivkin/AFP/Getty Images)

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(NYT36) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Jan. 29, 2008 — ILL-GOV-IMPEACH-3 — Gov. Rod Blagojevich goes over his notes in his office in Springfield, Ill., on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009. Blagojevich later delivered a dramatic closing argument in his impeachment trial at the Capitol. (Amanda Rivkin/The New York Times)

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(NYT41) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Jan. 29, 2008 — ILL-GOV-IMPEACH-8 — Gov. Rod Blagojevich awaits his jet’s takeoff after delivering a dramatic closing argument in his impeachment trial at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill., on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009. Blagojevich was convicted, thrown out of office and barred him from ever holding public office in the state again. (Amanda Rivkin/The New York Times)

Kitsch
January 12, 2010

“…Amanda shoots droll diversions in Central Europe and the Caucuses.”

Slovensko
October 29, 2010

“Careful shots of civil society reveal small truths to an intent spectator… documenting the debris of transition.”

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AND FOR THE ESSAY: SLOVENSKO

The election roster at the voting booth on election day in Turcianske Teplice, Slovakia on June 12, 2010.

Young visitors to Bojnice castle play with guns they just purchased outside the castle in Bojnice, Slovakia on June 22, 2010.

The V1 generating station at the Jaslovske Bohunice nuclear power plant in Jaslovske Bohunice, Slovakia on June 25, 2010.

Teenagers sneak a cigarette by the outhouse at a celebration for International Children’s Day in Jablonov nad Turnou, Slovkia on June 5, 2010.

Passengers on the number 71 trolley bus in Kosice, Slovakia on June 1, 2010.

A man hangs a French flag outside the main ethnographic museum in Brezno, Slovakia on May 24, 2010 in preparation for a visiting French delegation.

A fisherman under the bridge to the thermal spa island in Piestany, Slovakia on June 25, 2010.