On a recent Monday, I found myself sitting in the cozy living room of Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer, Cheryl Diaz Meyer, silently thinking to myself how privileged I felt being there. Diaz Meyer graciously invited me into her home to conduct an audio interview. Over the course of an hour, we spoke about wide-ranging topics from what her career has revealed about humanity, to her previous honors and their deeper significance, to her most recent award from The White House News Photographers Association, 2018 Eyes of History Still Contest, where she swept all the awards in the International News category. 

Finally, Diaz Meyer reflects on what makes a photograph visually meaningful. It is clear from her carefully measured words to the complexity of her photographs that Diaz Meyer is as thoughtful, kind and perceptive of a person as she is a photojournalist.

The audio interview below is a brief preview of the full interview to come. The full audio interview will be posted soon (as part of my new podcast launch!) and will feature Diaz Meyer speaking about complex topics like being a woman and person of color in the photojournalism industry, words of wisdom for aspiring photojournalists and the present and future of photojournalism.

Audio Excerpt with Cheryl Diaz Meyer: