Dieu-Nalio Chery

Freelance journalist (Haiti)
Knight-Wallace Fellow, University of Michigan

Dieu-Nalio Chery is a freelance photojournalist from Haiti who is now based in Michigan and recently completed a fellowship with City of Asylum in Detroit. His work has been published in The New York Times, Reuters, The Washington Post, The Haitian Times and The Associated Press. He received the 2019 Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club for photographic reporting that required “exceptional courage and enterprise.” He was also a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography. Dieu-Nalio grew up in Haiti and began working in his uncle’s photo studio in Port-au-Prince in his twenties. From 2010 to 2021, Dieu-Nalio worked for The Associated Press, documenting the profound beauty, searing pain and upheaval in his homeland. Many of his images have become iconic records of Haiti in the 21st century.