Yadira Hernández-Picó
Women Photograph
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Yadira Hernández-Picó is an award-winning Puerto Rican documentary photographer and educator. Her work highlights the human dimensions of climate change through visual storytelling projects, mainly in her home country, Puerto Rico.
Her personal long-term documentary project chronicling the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, “Volver a casa” [Returning Home], has been recognized with the 2019 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant and recipient of the 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant.
A VII Academy alumni, her work has been featured in numerous publications, such as the NPR – The Picture Show and the International Lens Magazine for Fine Art Photography, and has received recognition from the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, the Lucie Foundation, and the BarTur Photo Award.
She is a Women Photograph, Diversify Photo, and the Authority Collective member.
2021 - Lens Magazine , 2020 - NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant, 2018 - National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
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