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Cheryl Hatch
Growing up around the world in a military family, ZUMA Press photojournalist Cheryl Hatch is an explorer at heart, fascinated by languages, cultures and people, with a particular love of Africa and the Middle East. She's fluent in French and English and speaks Spanish and Arabic.
Hatch is a passionately committed documentary photographer, best known for her work in Iraq, Somalia, Liberia, Mozambique and Egypt, where she covered war and its impact on women and children for a variety of newspapers, magazines, and wire services.
Her photographs and writing have been published in TIME, Newsweek, Paris Match, Stern, New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and in books, including Game Face: What Does a Woman Athlete Look Like? and Texas 24/7. Her photos have exhibited around the world, including in the Smithsonian and the American University in Cairo.
In 1999, Hatch received the prestigious Pew Fellowship for journalists from Johns Hopkins University, the first photographer ever awarded the
honor. She went to Eritrea to shoot the story of the women who had fought as soldiers to liberate their country and are now fighting for their own freedom.
Hatch was a judge at the NPPA's Best of Photojournalism contest and worked as a staff photographer for the Associated Press in Seattle before joining ZUMA Press.
She is currently stationed in Northern Iraq with Institute for War and Peace Reporting where she trains and mentors a new generation of journalists to report objectively on and about developments within their country. Upon returning from Iraq, she hopes to continue her documentary on military families and writing a book about her experiences as a war photographer and the daughter of a Vietnam veteran. In all her work, domestic and international, she seeks to educate, inspire, and foster community and kinship.
zRepoetage Stories:
Birthing Crisis
Wonder Women of Eritrea
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