Hiram Alejandro Durán
Photojournalist
hduran@eltimpano.org
Hiram Alejandro Durán is an award-winning photojournalist from the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez border region. Durán is a fourth-generation Mexican-American and the first person in his family to be raised and educated in the United States. Before moving to NYC in 2018, he worked as a shoe salesman while studying Media Advertising and Marketing at the University of Texas at El Paso. Durán joined the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism with the intention of becoming a print reporter. But, after auditing an intro to photojournalism course, he discovered the power of photography as a storytelling tool. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Marshall Project, The Pulitzer Center, The Imprint News, Bklyner and The Mail & Guardian in Johannesburg, South Africa. He comes to El Tímpano as CatchLight Local Fellow.
By Hiram Alejandro Durán
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