About.
Heidi de Marco is an award-winning photojournalist and documentary photographer who focuses her multimedia work on marginalized and vulnerable communities – stories of human suffering and strength amid crisis.
Traveling since childhood, she became a photographer to share the way she viewed the world – finding beauty in the human spirit even in the most tragic situations.
Throughout her career, she has been a witness to crises – both in the United States and abroad. She has documented political unrest, health emergencies, and the global pandemic, as well as the quiet crises that are often overlooked. Someone living on the streets of Skid Row, families struggling with a terminal diagnosis, and farmworkers suffering from heat strokes.
Heidi started her journalism career in Los Angeles and then moved to India for a yearlong post-graduate program in multimedia journalism sponsored by the International Center for Journalists. She has a bachelor’s degree in international journalism from DePaul University and studied Spanish-language broadcast journalism at UCLA.
India is where she found her passion for health journalism, a beat she has spent more than a decade covering.
Heidi has taught workshops on multimedia storytelling, participated in panels on photojournalism, coached print and radio reporters on photography, and served as a mentor to aspiring photojournalists.
She produces bilingual multimedia stories that help humanize the oftentimes complex health and humanitarian issues impacting ethnic and low-income communities that are published in print, online, and on the radio. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, CNN, PBS Newshour, People, TIME, Radio Bilngüe, The New York Times, NPR and La Opinión, among others.
She is HEFAT certified and currently based in Los Angeles, California.
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