Washington, DC photographer CHERYL DIAZ MEYER is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and visual editor who captures storytelling images through powerful moments, unique composition and beautiful light producing iconic photography from the nation’s capital to crisis zones worldwide.

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U.S. Marines save an Iraqi civilian from his burning vehicle during the Iraq War invasion of 2003.
Conflict & Crisis
A woman with a bandage on her head faces a line of police carrying shields during George Floyd protests in Washington, DC.
News
Portraits & Headshots
A luxury roof-top pool at the Joule hotel in Dallas, Texas.
Corporate / PR
Features
George H.W. Bush Funeral
Politics
Projects
A large painted eye on the wall welcomes visitors to a restaurant in the Joule hotel in Dallas, Texas.
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Testimonials

Cheryl Diaz Meyer is an extraordinary photographer with experience that is unmatched. Her compassion and expertise makes her integral to the photo community at large.  

Julianne Varacchi

Senior Photo Editor, ESPN

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She is one of the more thoughtful and perceptive photographers I’ve had the pleasure of working with on long-term documentary projects. Her commitment to storytelling and representing the people in her pictures with unbiased visual honesty is unparalleled. 

Cheryl is the consummate professional. She is a visual storyteller, she understands the requirement of the assignment, knows how to overcome obstacles and produce exceptionally powerful images in the face of great odds.
John Davidson

AME/Photography, The Dallas Morning News

Cheryl’s teachings do not come from the language of words but the language of meaning. The humanism in her photography inspires me, and I hope that every time I press the shutter on my camera my heart is in the right place.
Olga Jaramillo

Mentee and Student, Eddie Adams Workshop

Press

Former comfort woman Maria Quistadio Arroyo, 86, lived a tragic life starting with her abduction and sexual enslavement by the Japanese forces during World War II.

Filipina Comfort Women

Megan Rummler

The Michael Hersch flux quartet plays music as an image of an Iraqi mental patient is superimposed.

Images from a Closed Ward

Michael Hersch

– a musical collaboration –

 

A Rohingya refugee man carries his unconscious wife to an auto rickshaw as they arrive to Bangladesh from Myanmar.

30 for 30
Eddie Adams Workshop

Iraqi man kissing the skull of his long deceased brother who was killed by Saddam Hussein's regime, at Abu Ghraib cemetery in Baghdad, Iraq.

Pulitzer Prize Special

Around the Lens

 

Rohingya boy Mohammadshofait Kurimulla looks out the door of the family's shelter, his face still covered in burn wounds from when their house was set on fire in Lambaghuna Moungdaw in Myanmar.

Humanity, Awards and What Makes An Impactful Photo

Megan Rummler

Former comfort woman Maria Quistadio Arroyo, 86, lived a tragic life starting with her abduction and sexual enslavement by the Japanese forces during World War II.

Filipina Comfort Women

Megan Rummler

 

The Michael Hersch flux quartet plays music as an image of an Iraqi mental patient is superimposed.

Images from a Closed Ward

Michael Hersch

– a musical collaboration –

 

A Rohingya refugee man carries his unconscious wife to an auto rickshaw as they arrive to Bangladesh from Myanmar.

30 for 30
Eddie Adams Workshop

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After not having seen each other for weeks during the war, Fatma Mohammad and Zubaida Salman hug each other fondly on the first day of their school reopening.

Behind the Lens: Interview with Cheryl Diaz Meyer
Impakter Magazine

An Iraqi girl looks through the burned skin on her brother's feet during the Iraq War.

Journalists in Iraq: Covering the War
C-SPAN

Young Iraqi boy smiling by a chalkboard where American soldiers left a message, "Iraq Is Free!"

2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Breaking News Photography
The Pulitzer Prizes

Photographer Cheryl Diaz Meyer wears a burka while working at an Iraqi orphanage after the invasion.

Reporting from Iraq/ASNE Panel
C-SPAN

Hundreds of Rohingya refugees with young children flee the violence in Myanmar to Bangladeshi shores, walking on a thin strip of land carrying sacks of their belongings on their shoulders.

Pinay Photographer recognized
Balitang America TFC

Myanmar's Rohingya refugee Anwara Nurhassan takes a boat from Chalpuridip, Bangladesh, as she journeys to refugee camps in search of safe haven.

Photographer Wins Big

PGCTVonline

 

U.S. Marine Brian Flaherty of New York works on a tank bladder in a dust storm during the Iraq War.

Iraq War Photographers/AAJA Panel

C-SPAN

Iraqi man kissing the skull of his long deceased brother who was killed by Saddam Hussein's regime, at Abu Ghraib cemetery in Baghdad, Iraq.

Pulitzer Prize Special

Around the Lens

 

Rohingya boy Mohammadshofait Kurimulla looks out the door of the family's shelter, his face still covered in burn wounds from when their house was set on fire in Lambaghuna Moungdaw in Myanmar.

Humanity, Awards and What Makes An Impactful Photo

Megan Rummler

After not having seen each other for weeks during the war, Fatma Mohammad and Zubaida Salman hug each other fondly on the first day of their school reopening.

Behind the Lens: Interview with Cheryl Diaz Meyer
Impakter Magazine

Young Iraqi boy smiling by a chalkboard where American soldiers left a message, "Iraq Is Free!"

2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Breaking News Photography
The Pulitzer Prizes

Hundreds of Rohingya refugees with young children flee the violence in Myanmar to Bangladeshi shores, walking on a thin strip of land carrying sacks of their belongings on their shoulders.

Pinay Photographer recognized
Balitang America TFC

Myanmar's Rohingya refugee Anwara Nurhassan takes a boat from Chalpuridip, Bangladesh, as she journeys to refugee camps in search of safe haven.

Photographer Wins Big

PGCTVonline

 

U.S. Marine Brian Flaherty of New York works on a tank bladder in a dust storm during the Iraq War.

Iraq War Photographers/AAJA Panel

C-SPAN

An Iraqi girl looks through the burned skin on her brother's feet during the Iraq War.

Journalists in Iraq: Covering the War
C-SPAN

Photographer Cheryl Diaz Meyer wears a burka while working at an Iraqi orphanage after the invasion.

Reporting from Iraq/ASNE Panel
C-SPAN

Why Choose Me

  • Highly skilled — from commercial lighting to breaking news
  • Creates powerful succinct images
  • Adept at prioritizing and juggling multiple tasks
  • Functions well under extreme stress
  • Dedicated to the truth
  • Self starter
  • Track record of success
  • Highly motivated
  • Collaborative team player
  • Flexible
  • Quick turnaround for deadlines
  • Excellent communicator
  • Responsive to client needs
  • Enjoys diverse assignments
  • Fearlessly approaches challenges
  • Creative and detail-oriented
Cheryl Diaz Meyer
Cheryl Diaz Meyer
  • Highly skilled — from commercial lighting to breaking news
  • Creates powerful succinct images
  • Adept at prioritizing and juggling multiple tasks
  • Functions well under extreme stress
  • Dedicated to the truth
  • Self starter
  • Track record of success
  • Highly motivated
  • Collaborative team player
  • Flexible
  • Quick turnaround for deadlines
  • Excellent communicator
  • Responsive to client needs
  • Enjoys diverse assignments
  • Fearlessly approaches challenges
  • Creative and detail-oriented

Publications / Clients

Publications / Clients

Names and Logos of companies where Cheryl Diaz Meyer has been published.

Popular Blogs

War Teaches Lessons about Fear and Courage

After not having seen each other for weeks during the war, Fatma Mohammad and Zubaida Salman hug each other fondly on the first day of their school reopening.
Harvard University: Nieman Reports

June 15, 2006

Working as a photojournalist, I’ve been through war zones several times in the past five years. I was there at the height of the war in Afghanistan, during the fall of Konduz when the last Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan was destroyed. I was embedded with the U.S. Marines during the invasion of Iraq, and later worked unilaterally at a time when the sectarian violence intensified.

Saddam Hussein’s Spider Hole

The "spider hole" where Saddam Hussein was captured
The Dallas Morning News

December 15, 2003

My heart was racing, and the immensity of it was so overwhelming that I simply couldn’t think. Was my camera on the right settings? Was my exposure correct? Was my flash putting out the correct amount of light? I could hardly process the information, which normally comes so naturally to me after having worked as a photojournalist for 13 years. Monday, I was sitting in the same hole that Saddam Hussein was hiding in less than 48 hours ago when he was captured by U.S. special forces.

Superstar, Catwoman or Photojournalist

President of the Philippines holds Pulitzer Prize winning photo by Cheryl Diaz Meyer
Digital Journalist

July 17, 2004

Dear Family, Friends and Colleagues,

I had barely gotten off the airplane with a couple of hundred other nameless folk, dazed and a little stupid from too much travel, when I was met with a sampaguita lei and a bouquet of roses from a correct staff woman from the Philippine Department of Tourism.  I was then smoothly guided through immigration, had only to point at my luggage before someone retrieved it off the belt for me, and then was led outside where an air-conditioned vehicle awaited to whisk me to the historic Manila Hotel.  It was a dream.   Who am I?

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