MIGUEL JUAREZ LUGO has more than 20 years of experience as a photojournalist and
has covered stories in Mexico, the U.S., East and Central Africa and the Middle East. His
photos have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek,
NPR, Paris Match, El Pais, O Globo and Gara, among other outlets. He was the first Mex-
ican photographer to be based in the U.S. for the Mexican newspapers Reforma and El
Norte, covering the White House and Congress. He has worked extensively in Kenya,
Ethiopia, Congo, Somalia, Sudan, Egypt, Gaza, and most recently, Syria. Miguel is inter-
ested in the power of photography to communicate the humanity, emotion and complexity
of a given moment, always with dignity and honesty, and always with the goal of bringing
the viewer and subject closer together. He is currently based in New York and Washing-
ton, D.C.
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