by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Nov 20, 2001 | Editorial Photography, News, Photography, Photojournalism, War, War on Terror
It’s been some three days since we reached Taloqan. We have been visiting the front lines some 20 kilometers away everyday. News is that Kunduz is expected to fall any day now. It’s been a real challenge working as a woman in a war zone. I have been poked,...
by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Nov 15, 2001 | Editorial Photography, News, Photography, Photojournalism, Reportage, War, War on Terror
Dear Family, Friends, and Colleagues, All hell’s broken loose in Afghanistan, and Tracey and I are sitting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, watching the news develop from our hotel rooms. We didn’t even make it two weeks in Khoja Bahauddin, and our generator gave...
by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Nov 2, 2001 | Editorial Photography, News, Photography, Photojournalism, Reportage, War, War on Terror
Dear Family, Friends and Colleagues, We arrived in Khoja Bahauddin, Afghanistan eight nights ago and it has gone by in a flash. The drive from Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan was in itself a story. We began the day at the Tajik Foreign Ministry building where...
by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Oct 24, 2001 | Editorial Photography, News, Photography, Photojournalism, Reportage, War, War on Terror
An ancient grave site on the Northern Alliance’s Quzal Tomjuq command post overlooks the sleepy town of Lala Maidan where a wedding was celebrated as jets roared overhead in the second day of air strikes in northern Afghanistan. The command post sits just miles...
by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Oct 23, 2001 | Documentary Photography, Editorial Photography, News, News, Photography, Photojournalism, Reportage, War, War on Terror
Dear Family and Friends, Sunday morning I got to talking to a woman from ABC Australia during breakfast and she had just returned from Afghanistan. I picked her brain about what’s what over there and she said we needed all our provisions for the time we...
by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Oct 23, 2001 | Commercial Photography, Corporate Photography, Crisis, Documentary, Editorial Photography, News, War on Terror, War Photography
Zebullah, 12, listens to an English lesson from his nurse Abdul Satar through a window at the Khoja Bahauddin Hospital in northern Afghanistan. Zebullah’s foot was injured and his two uncles were killed when the Taliban fired a rocket into their house during a...
by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Oct 16, 2001 | Documentary Photography, Editorial Photography, News, Photography, Photojournalism, Reportage, War, War on Terror
Emil Mustafin, 31, Nurridin Majjidov, 28, and Iskandir Abdurahmanov, 29, left to right, enjoy a few bottles of beer and entertain passersby with karaoke on a Sunday afternoon on Sailgokh Street in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Dear family and friends, I am currently in...