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Rohingya images sweep White House News Photographers Association honors
Myanmar’s Rohingya refugee children are traumatized by the violence they’ve witnessed from the Myanmar army, they wait to board boats in Chalpuridip, Bangladesh, to continue their journey to camps further in the country on Oct. 3, 2017. Thank you to the...
War Teaches Lessons about Fear and Courage
Declaring their new loyalty by taping a poster on their vehicles of Ahmed Shah Masood, Mohibullah and some 500 other Taliban soldiers from Konduz surrender to the Northern Alliance in northern Afghanistan. Many of the foreign Taliban were unable to surrender and...
Superstar, Catwoman or Photojournalist?
Cheryl Diaz Meyer presents the president of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, with one of her Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs from the Iraq War at the Malacañang Palace in Manila in 2004. Dear Family, Friends and Colleagues, I had barely gotten off the...
Baghdad Hospital in the Midst of War
Editor’s Note: Cheryl Diaz Meyer has returned to Iraq to cover rebuilding efforts. In a personal journal, she reflects on the chaos she encountered at a Baghdad hospital. There, amid the disarray, watching women give birth in bare-bones conditions, she also...
Saddam Hussein’s Spider Hole
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...
Life amid Lawlessness
Editor’s note: Photographer Cheryl Diaz Meyer went to the Middle East in January, rode into Iraq with Marines of the 2nd Tank Battalion in March, then covered the war’s aftermath from Baghdad. There, before she left this month, she befriended a remarkable...
The courageous and the insane
ON THE ROAD TO BAGHDAD – I’m sitting in the back of an amphibious assault vehicle, and my stomach is turning, over and over. The cracking of the machine guns being loaded with magazines and the chic, chic, chic of pistols being cleared of dust is seeping...
On the Road to Baghdad
One early morning, as the 2nd Tank Battalion was on the road to Baghdad, I saw a young grunt with rosy cheeks resting on the ground on his elbows holding a rose to his nose, inhaling its delicate scent. I grabbed my camera and quietly began shooting pictures of him....
Caught in hell
ON THE ROAD TO BAGHDAD – A sickening WVOOOOOM! accompanied by a desperate call of INCOMING!!! woke me from my battle-weary sleep. In the fractions of a second that my poor, numb brain registered the sound of the 122mm rocket that landed 20 feet from our camp, I...
2000 Marines and Marilyn Monroe
Lance Corporal Hunter Sorrells of Tennessee cheers fellow Marines during a talent show at Camp Coyote, the northern-most camp in Kuwait, as they wait for the U.S.-led strike against Iraq, March 14, 2003. Dear Family and Friends, Whistles, cheers and thunderous...
Waiting for the Iraq War: Bahrain Detour
In the Eastern Marshes of southern Iraq, 5,000 Iraqis have returned to reclaim land and restore the marshes once destroyed by Saddam Hussein after the first Gulf War Shiite uprising. The Dallas Morning News photographer Cheryl Diaz Meyer reports on the conditions of...
Reentering Civilization
Photo by Tracey Eaton Cheryl Diaz Meyer photographs mujahedeen fighters on the front lines of Taloqan in northern Afghanistan. Upon arrival in Dallas, my fiancé, Kenny, told me he’d left some messages for me on the answering machine. A small, broken and barely...