Dieu-Nalio Chery is a freelance photojournalist from Haiti who is now a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. He was a Visual Artist in Residence with NYC Artist Safe Haven Residency Program in 2021–2022 and recently completed a fellowship with City of Asylum Detroit.

His work has been published in The New York Times, Reuters, The Washington Post, The Haitian Times, and The Associated Press. He received the 2019 Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club for photographic reporting that required “exceptional courage and enterprise.” He was also a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography.

Chery grew up in Haiti and began working in his uncle’s photo studio in Port-au-Prince in his twenties. From 2010 to 2021, Chery worked for The Associated Press, documenting the profound beauty, searing pain, and upheaval in his homeland. Many of his images have become iconic records of Haiti in the 21st century.