Cheryl Diaz Meyer, as a senior staff photographer for The Dallas Morning News, won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography in 2004 with fellow staff photographer David Leeson for their images depicting the invasion and aftermath of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Her work from Iraq, also awarded the Visa D’Or Daily Press Award 2003, is available in books, "Desert Diaries" and "The War in Iraq," published by Corbis and Life. For her Afghanistan coverage, she won the Overseas Press Club’s John Faber Award. She is now based in Washington, D.C.
