Diego Herrera

Country: Spain 🇪🇸

Diego Herrera Carcedo is a photojournalist with a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Burgos. He has worked as a freelance photojournalist in the refugee crisis in Greece, Serbia and Bosnia, with the Gagauz ethnic minority in Moldova, in post-war Armenia and in the conflict in Ukraine, in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Diego has been a contributor to numerous media outlets, both nationally and internationally. He has worked mainly for the Anadolu Agency.
His contributions have been seen in the pages of leading publications such as El País, El Mundo, Eldiario.es, El Periódico, La Vanguardia, Naiz and El Salto Diario at the national level, and international media such as The Guardian, BBC, CNN, Liberation, Time, DW, Welt and Zeit.

His exceptional work has been recognised and awarded multiple times. In 2020, his series on refugees in Serbia won the Transversalities Award. Likewise, in 2021, a photograph of the Gagauz ethnic minority won the 9th International Photography Prize Ciudad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. More recently, in 2022, Diego was awarded first prize in the renowned Xposure contest for his outstanding coverage of the war in Ukraine, for which he also won the Journalism and Communication Award of the Instituto de la Juventud in 2023 and the King of Spain Award 2024.