 | Former Editor and Story Developer of Magnum Photos, Sheryl A. Mendez graduated with a B.A. in Political Science and Journalism, Rutgers University. Today, she is an M.S.degree candidate in International Affairs.
Mendez is a cofounder of The Crimes of War Project and is currently the photo editor and case researcher on the 2nd edition of the book, Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (W.W. Norton & Co.) She is also a freelance photo and radio journalist and has been published by The London Sunday Times Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, ABC News, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Nouvel Obs (France), Graphis, and on-air for National Public Radio, among others.
Contributing photographer to World Picture News, former US News & World Report, New York Bureau’s Editor of Photography (2000 to 2005) and Magnum Photos Editor of Story Development and Field Research. Mendez has traveled throughout Asia, Africa, and the Middle East on numerous projects in collaboration with the United Nations, International NGO’s and as a photojournalist. She has published and exhibited her work internationally and has lectured on and taught photography worldwide. In 2007, she covered the war in Lebanon. Mendez also traveled to Iraq on three separate trips in 2003, 2004 and 2005 documenting the aftermath of war. In 2006, she began coordinating throughout the Middle East, Moving Walls: a Documentary Photography Exhibition organized by the Open Society Institute in conjunction with teaching the photo workshops of Al-liquindoi Photography Workshops of Spain. In July of 2007, she cofounded Offline: Events, a nonprofit, non-governmental organization based in Italy, that aims to give voice to filmmakers, journalists and visual and performing artists living in areas of war and conflict. Offline Baghdad (Not Just Another Film Festival) was the first event of Offline: Events held in Milan, Italy, December 13 - 16, 2007 bringing Iraqi filmmakers, journalists, fixers and performing artists together to engage with a European audience on Iraq, a country often reported on but little understood. Offline: Baghdad brought together over 30 Iraqi filmmakers, journalists, fixers, authors and performing artists to Milan, Italy to share their firsthand accounts of living and working in today's Iraq.
Sheryl currently lives between Beirut, Lebanon and Damascus, Syria. To see more of her work, please visit: www.americanphotojournalist.com/member.php
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