Joel Angel Juárez is a 21-year-old Mexican-American photojournalist. He was born and raised in Oxnard, California. Juárez is currently studying photojournalism and international relations at San Francisco State University. His has done work with The San Francisco Examiner, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Associated Press, ZUMA Press and El Tecolote among others.
Juárez has received a number of awards for his photojournalism work. He placed 8th in the 2016 Hearst Journalism Awards Program National Photo Story Competition for his work documenting families of individuals killed by law enforcement in the SF Bay Area. In 2016, the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club awarded him and two other photographers from El Tecolote, a San Francisco community newspaper, with third place in the Photography Series category for their coverage on the Day of the Dead celebration in the Mission District. ZUMA Press recognized Juárez's coverage on the Dakota Access Pipeline in its November 2016 POM “The Pictures of the Month."
Juárez is a founding member of VISN Photo Collective, a group of young photojournalists documenting contemporary social issues. He plans on documenting human conflict, immigration and resource scarcity around the world.
