by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Oct 1, 2019 | Advertising Photographer, Documentary Photography, Editorial Photography, Photojournalism, Reportage, washington-dc-photographer
AMMAN, Jordan I’m wearing a silky leopard print blouse and a pair of skin tight jeans. Every curl on my head has been sprayed and arranged so they all twist in the same direction. And my face is barely recognizable — luminous foundation, extra highlights to emphasize...
by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Jan 28, 2018 | Commercial Photographer, Crisis, Documentary, Editorial Photographer, Editorial Photography, Reportage
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...
by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Jun 15, 2006 | Editorial Photography, News, Photography, Photojournalism, Reportage, War, War on Terror
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...
by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Dec 22, 2003 | Editorial Photography, News, Photojournalism, War Photography
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...
by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Dec 15, 2003 | Documentary Photography, Editorial Photography, News, Photojournalism, Reportage, War, War on Terror, War Photography
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...
by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | May 15, 2003 | Editorial Photography, News, Photojournalism, War Photography
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...