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...
by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Apr 15, 2003 | Advertising Photography, Commercial Photography, Corporate Photography, Documentary, Photojournalism, War on Terror, War Photography
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...
by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Apr 11, 2003 | Editorial Photography, News, Photography, Photojournalism, War, War on Terror
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....
by Cheryl Diaz Meyer | Apr 5, 2003 | Commercial Photography, Corporate Photography, Photojournalism, Reportage, War on Terror, War Photography
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...
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 | Feb 13, 2003 | Photojournalism, Reportage, War on Terror, War Photography
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...
