Iraq | Editorial & Humanitarian Photographer, Heber Vega.

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January 17, 2012 by heber vega

Guest Blogging – “Haunted Memories”

Today I’m guest blogging at a friend’s Blog. The special thing about this post is that it isn’t just another Blog post for me. This is a very intimate, deep and difficult story of my childhood that I had to put into words and photographs. I’m really thankful for this challenge, thanks to Jose Martinez. [...]

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December 12, 2011 by heber vega

This is just the beginning!

For the last couple of months, I’ve been involved in the most ambitious project ever in my life. And that also involves my family as well. I once blogged about it here, Photography for Good!, and today I want to share with all of you the very first fruits of our work at The ONE-SHOT [...]

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October 27, 2011 by heber vega

Assignment: The Other Iraq (And the other Me)

A couple months ago, I contacted one of the main newspapers in Chile, called La Tercera. It publishes a Sunday magazine that has a very unique approach to storytelling. This magazine, El Semanal, is not based on documentaries, reports, analysis or interviews, which is the norm for a publication like that in Chile. Instead, El [...]

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October 10, 2011 by heber vega

Photographing Women in a Muslim country

A couple of weeks ago, one of my good friends, Canadian photographer Erin Wilson, suggested I write about this topic after revising my 2010 portfolio. This was the second time that another photographer mentioned this to me. I guess in all these years I have found my own way, as male photographer, to photograph women [...]

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January 4, 2011 by heber vega

Slideshow: “The Family Center – Iraq”

As you probably know I’m back in Chile, my home country, and with my family we’ll be staying here till mid of february. At that point we’ll head back to Iraq, to keep working on our humanitarian projects and our photography work as well. It’s been a great time to have been back with our [...]