“ETHICAL DILEMMAS” TO SHOOT OR NOT TO SHOOT with AL DIAZ
Location:
Cox Science Center STEM Building
4800 Dreher Trail North
West Palm Beach, FL 33405
Recommend set GPS for Palm Beach Zoo
off of Summit Boulevard and follow our yard signs on Dreher Trail North
Schedule:
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
6:30 pm to 7:00 pm Social Time
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Class
AL DIAZ BIO
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 since 1983.
Al is also a Think Tank Photo Pro Team Member.
Diaz has covered national and international stories for the Herald on assignments in Europe, Cuba, Panama, Venezuela, Haiti, and Mexico.
He has served as guest lecturer and judge for various national and international organizations, colleges, and universities including Pictures of the Year International hosted by the Missouri School of Journalism, the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, and the National Press Photographers Association
In addition, his work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC., and the Military Women’s Memorial in Arlington, Va., Locally, Diaz has curated his own exhibits and of others at HistoryMiami Museum.
Diaz is the recipient of the 2014 Humanitarian Award by the NPPA 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 is 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 is also a contributing staff member awarded as 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 also 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, and Pictures of the Year International. Most recently, Associated Press Sports Editors the Pro Football Hall of Fame Photography Contest, and the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors
Diaz is an alumnus of Miami-Dade College. He joined the photography staff at the Miami Herald upon graduating from the University of Florida in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and a minor in Visual Arts. A Coral Gables resident, Diaz is married to Cindy Seip with two children, Angelika, and James Bartek
LEARN MORE ABOUT AL DIAZ AND HIS WORK:
ALDIAZPHOTO.com | ALDIAZPHOTOBLOG.com | PhotoWorkshopsMiami.com
