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Adriana Zehbrauskas

Adriana Zehbrauskas is a Brazilian documentary photographer based in Phoenix, Arizona. Her work is largely focused on issues related to migration, religion, human rights, underrepresented communities and the violence resulting from the drug trade in Mexico, Central and South America. As a documentary photographer the core of her work is aimed at moving, challenging and connecting people through the stories she works on.

She contributes regularly with the The New York Times and well as with UNICEF and The Guardian. Her work has been widely published in outlets such as The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Stern, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and El País, among others.

She is the recipient of a 2022/23 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award Citation, 2021 Maria Moors Cabot Prize , 2021 Anja Niedringhaus Courage In Photojournalism Award Honorable Mention, a New York Press Club Award in Feature-Science Medicine and Technology in the Newspaper category for the article “Zika’s Legacy: Catastrophic Consequences of a Continuing Crisis (NY-2018) and a POY International (2019). She was a finalist for the Premio Gabo (2018) and received two Honorable Mentions at the Julia Margaret Cameron Award (2018).

Adriana is one of the three photographers profiled in the documentary “Beyond Assignment” (USA, 2011, produced by The Knight Center for International Media and the University of Miami. She’s a recipient of the first Getty Images Instagram Grant and was awarded Best Female Photojournalist in her native Brazil (Troféu Mulher Imprensa). Her mobile photography work was selected by Time Magazine for the “29 Instagrams That Defined the World in 2014″ and her project on Faith in Brazil and Mexico was awarded a Art & Worship World Prize by the Niavaran Artistic Creation Foundation.

She’s an instructor with the International Center of Photography (ICP- NY), the World Press Photo Foundation, Gabriel García Márquez’s Fundación Gabo, the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop and serves as a jury member to dozens of grants and awards worldwide, including the World Press Photo, POY LATAM and Premio Gabo.

Currently teaching visual journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State University.

Adriana Zehbrauskas – Family Matters

Adriana Zehbrauskas & Dario Lopez-Mills: Balancing Work and Life

Wife and husband Adriana Zehbrauskas and Dario Lopez-Mills are award-winning photojournalists with years of experience between them, who understand the importance of having a balanced life. In this video, the pair share some of the unique challenges they face as working photographers and how they try to create a healthy relationship and rewarding work.

Adriana Zehbrauskas is a Brazilian documentary photographer based in Mexico City, Mexico.Her work covers mostly issues related to migration, religion and the aftermath of the violence related to the drug wars in Mexico as well as the daily life of sub and misrepresented communities.She contributes regularly to The New York Times, BuzzFeed News, The Washington Post and others.Adriana is one of the three photographers profiled in the documentary “Beyond Assignment” (USA, 2011, produced by The Knight Center for International Media and the University of Miami. She’s one of the recipients of the first Getty Images Instagram Grant and was awarded Best Female Photojournalist -Troféu Mulher Imprensa (Brazil). Her mobile photography work was selected by Time Magazine for the “29 Instagrams That Defined the World in 2014″ and her project on Faith in Brazil and Mexico was awarded a Art & Worship World Prize by the Niavaran Artistic Creation Foundation.

Darío López-Mills is the chief photographer for the Associated Press in Mexico and Central America. He moved to Mexico after working for the AP as Brazil’s chief photographer from 1997 to 2003. He has covered breaking news in almost every country in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. He has been a photojournalist since 1990. Previously, López-Mills worked as a line cook and chef in New York City for almost a decade. He spent his youth training in classical ballet in Mexico, New York and Cuba.

Additional videos:

Cultural Storytelling

In documenting and telling the story of different cultures, Adriana Zehbrauskas believes that photography helps demonstrate that "people are not truly born equal." From this awareness, people can find encouragement to remedy the problems of inequity.

Ethics

Adriana Zehbrauskas talks about the ethical concerns involved in shooting sensitive situations — and the importance of respect.

Covering Conflicts
Adriana Zehbrauskas talks about the risks of covering conflict in Mexico, and the sometimes deadly cost of being a photojournalist overseas.