Hiram Durán

Hiram Alejandro Durán is an award-winning photojournalist and photo editor from the El
Paso-Ciudad Juárez border region. He is currently a Catchlight Local fellow and Report for America corps member at El Tímpano in the San Francisco Bay Area – where the photo essays he's produced and edited have received photojournalism and community engagement recognitions.

Although he is fourth-generation Mexican-American, Hiram is the first person in his family to be
raised and educated in the U.S. 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. Hiram 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, SanFrancisco Chronicle, THE CITY, KQED, Palabra, El Tecolote, The Riverdale Press, The Imprint News, Bklyner and The Mail & Guardian in Johannesburg, South Africa.