Contact

For commissions & licensing:

Phone: 347-725-1939 (feel free to call if assignment is time-sensitive)

Email: thalia.juarez.photo@gmail.com

Based in: New York City (Harlem)

Languages: English/Spanish

FAA Part 107 Certified Drone Pilot

About

Thalía Juárez (she/her) is a journalist and documentary photographer based in Harlem, New York. She specializes in reportage and portraiture and is passionate about covering stories related to migration, labor, environmental justice, and access to healthcare and education.

With seven years of experience in news, Thalia has honed her multimedia abilities and transitioned seamlessly between a range of newsroom roles with the goal of elevating visuals to draw readers to underreported stories. Thalia values a compassionate and nuanced approach to news coverage.

Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Baltimore Sun, among others.

Thalía grew up in Southern California and studied Journalism at The University of Texas, Austin. She is available for photo and video assignments anywhere you’d like to send her.

Background

Thalía currently works part-time as a photo editor at the Guardian, where she commissions photographers across the US to cover timely stories on a range of topics. Before that, she was a photo editor at The Wall Street Journal, where she conceptualized and commissioned visual coverage for daily news stories and long-form pieces. From 2018-2020, she was on the audience engagement team at The Baltimore Sun, where her passion for building community trust helped grow digital audiences. She also pitched and reported multimedia stories relevant to Baltimore's Latino communities, including features, breaking news, and enterprise pieces in English and Spanish. From 2017-2018 she worked as a multimedia journalist, digital producer, and homepage editor for The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland. She got her start at a local newspaper in rural Southwestern Pennsylvania. Outside of journalism, she enjoys reading, ceramics, playing soccer, and volunteering in her community.

Member of Diversify Photo, Women Photograph, Authority Collective, NAHJ

Recognitions

2023 - Women Photograph 2023 Year in Pictures

2023 - En Foco Photography Fellowship Program

2022 - Foundry Photojournalism Workshop

2022 - Art of Freelance Portfolio Review

2021 - Maynard 200 Fellow by The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education [MIJE]

2021 - Work featured in Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum’s "Food for the People" Exhibit

2020 - Staff of The Baltimore Sun Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the undisclosed financial relationship between the Baltimore City mayor and the public hospital system she helped oversee. Role: Audience Engagement Team

2020 - Rising Star Fellow at the Pictures of the Year International competition at the Missouri School of Journalism

2019 - Pulitzer citation for The Capital Gazette Staff coverage of the mass shooting. Role: Photojournalism

2018 - News image featured in TIME's Top 100 Photos

2017 - MDDC first place for continuing video coverage of MS-13 gang activity, in addition to joint first place for investigative journalism

2017 - MDDC first place in multi-media feature storytelling on incarcerated mothers