Ariana Drehsler
San Diego, CA, United States
Ariana Drehsler is a photojournalist with a focus on social and political issues based in San Diego, California. Ariana has covered the Arab Spring, the rise and fall of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, and the frontlines of Syria’s Civil War.
In 2019 she completed a series focusing on migrants and their issues at the U.S. – Mexican border, including migrants who have traveled through Central America and Mexico in hopes of seeking asylum in the United States. Recently she has focused on stories relating to Covid-19, Black Lives Matter, and the US presidential election. Ariana is a graduate of the Design Institute of San Diego with a BFA in Interior Design.
Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, NZZ, Vox, Bloomberg, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Vice Magazine, San Diego Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, BuzzFeed News, KQED, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and others. She is HEFAT certified.
- Breaking news
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Portrait
- Reporting
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Ariana Drehsler
With growing frustration at the length of the asylum process, a dozen migrants decide to jump the border fence that divides the United States and Mexico on December 2, 2018 at Las Playas de Tijuana, Mexico. On assignment for UPI.
Nogales, Arizona
Ariana Drehsler
A car speeds by the US border fence covered in concertina wire separating the US and Mexico, at the outskirts of Nogales, Arizona, on February 9, 2019. (AFP Photo/Ariana Drehsler)
