Al Diaz

About

Al Diaz captures the decisive moment when covering natural disasters, political campaigns, sports championships, temperamental celebrities, and angry mobs as a multi-award-winning photojournalist for the Miami Herald. Diaz is the recipient of the 2014 Humanitarian Award by the National Press Photographers Association and the Associated Press Media Editors Showcase Photo of the Year for helping, then capturing the dramatic CPR rescue of a baby on a busy Florida highway.  Diaz was a key part of two Pulitzer Prize winning news teams for his work covering the sudden collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside in 2022 and Hurricane Andrew in 1993. He was also a contributing staff member awarded Pulitzer Prize Finalist for pictures depicting the force of Hurricane Andrew and the strength of those who survived the storm. Diaz has been twice honored with the McClatchy President’s Award for Journalism Excellence for team coverage of Puerto Rico: The Forgotten Island in 2018 and for coverage of the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010. Throughout Diaz's photojournalism career, his photographs have received honors from the National Press Photographers Association, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Atlanta Seminar on Photojournalism, POY, the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, and most recently, the Pro Football Hall of Fame Photography Contest. Diaz joined the photography staff at the Miami Herald in 1983 upon graduating from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism degree and a minor in Visual Arts.