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 | 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...
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...