Cheryl Diaz Meyer
Freelance
Faculty
Cheryl Diaz Meyer won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 2004 with fellow staff photographer David Leeson for their images depicting the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Her work there was also awarded the Visa D’Or Daily Press Award 2004 in Perpignan, France.
Formerly a staff photographer of The Dallas Morning News and the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Diaz Meyer photographed the war in Afghanistan shortly after 9/11, she has also covered assignments in countries such as China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Guatemala, Mexico, Indonesia, Kuwait and Bahrain. Diaz Meyer’s work has been published in newspapers and magazines internationally as well as in numerous books. Her work is exhibited in the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Diaz Meyer received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Photojournalism from Western Kentucky University in 1994 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in German from the University of Minnesota – Duluth in 1990.
