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, San Francisco Chronicle, THE CITY, KQED, Palabra, El Tecolote, The Riverdale Press, The Imprint News, Bklyner and The Mail & Guardian in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo by Robert Andy Coombs
Mountain Workshop Photo Editing 2024
Nonprofit News Awards Insight Award for Visual Journalism 2024
LION Awards Community Engagement Award 2024
American Photography 39 Chosen Winner 2023
New York Press Association First Place Art Photo 2022
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop USA 2022
American Photography 38 Chosen Winner 2022
Neutral Density Photography Awards Honorable Mention: General News 2022
Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIII Nikon Award 2020
Pulitzer Center A Year in Photos 2020
E&P EPPY Awards 2020 Best Photojournalism on a Website with less than 1,000,000 unique monthly visitors
hiramaduran@gmail.com