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 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 | 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...