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 | 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 | Mar 25, 2003 | Documentary Photography, Editorial Photography, Photojournalism, Reportage, War on Terror, War Photography
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...
by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Nov 30, 2001 | Documentary Photography, Editorial Photography, News, Photography, Photojournalism, Reportage, War, War on Terror
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...
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 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...