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...
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 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...