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The Michael Hersch flux quartet plays music as an image of an Iraqi mental patient is superimposed.

Michael Hersch musical collaboration – Images from a Closed Ward – live flux quartet performance of eerily exquisite melodies with image projections, including Cheryl’s images from the Baghdad Mental Hospital (photo above)

Megan Rummler – A|Decibel Media interview about Cheryl Diaz Meyer’s project “The Last Living Comfort Women of the Philippines”

Megan Rummler – Pulitzer Prize-Winning War Photographer, Cheryl Diaz Meyer Speaks About Humanity, Awards and What Makes An Impactful Photo

Spot.ph – “Cheryl Diaz Meyer: Life After Pulitzer,” Q & A online article

The Dallas Morning News – “War with Iraq,” multimedia presentation

Nieman Reports – “War Teaches Lessons About Fear and Courage,” a reflection on the personal price of war

The Digital Journalist – “It’s as Close to Marilyn Monroe as I’m Ever Going to Get,“ journal from the field by Cheryl Diaz Meyer

The Digital Journalist – “They Call Me the Reporter,” journal from the field by Cheryl Diaz Meyer

DART Center for Journalism & Trauma – “In the War Zone,” Q & A with Cheryl Diaz Meyer

American Journalism Review – “Images of War” questions whether the media is sanitizing the Iraq War

KPBS – “War Photographers,” video interview with Asian American Journalists Association war photographers

PoynterOnline – “A Role Model,” author’s personal impressions of Cheryl Diaz Meyer and her work in Iraq

 

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War Teaches Lessons about Fear and Courage

After not having seen each other for weeks during the war, Fatma Mohammad and Zubaida Salman hug each other fondly on the first day of their school reopening.
Harvard University: Nieman Reports

June 15, 2006

Working as a photojournalist, I’ve been through war zones several times in the past five years. I was there at the height of the war in Afghanistan, during the fall of Konduz when the last Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan was destroyed. I was embedded with the U.S. Marines during the invasion of Iraq, and later worked unilaterally at a time when the sectarian violence intensified.

Saddam Hussein’s Spider Hole

The "spider hole" where Saddam Hussein was captured
The Dallas Morning News

December 15, 2003

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 normally comes so naturally to me after having worked as a photojournalist for 13 years. Monday, I was sitting in the same hole that Saddam Hussein was hiding in less than 48 hours ago when he was captured by U.S. special forces.

Superstar, Catwoman or Photojournalist

President of the Philippines holds Pulitzer Prize winning photo by Cheryl Diaz Meyer
Digital Journalist

July 17, 2004

Dear Family, Friends and Colleagues,

I had barely gotten off the airplane with a couple of hundred other nameless folk, dazed and a little stupid from too much travel, when I was met with a sampaguita lei and a bouquet of roses from a correct staff woman from the Philippine Department of Tourism.  I was then smoothly guided through immigration, had only to point at my luggage before someone retrieved it off the belt for me, and then was led outside where an air-conditioned vehicle awaited to whisk me to the historic Manila Hotel.  It was a dream.   Who am I?

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