Douglas Menuez

Award-winning documentary photographer Douglas Menuez began his varied career shooting first for the Washington Post, and then Time, Newsweek, Life, People and Fortune Magazine and many other publications worldwide over the past twenty-five years. He’s covered major news stories including the famine in Ethiopia, the destruction of the Amazon, the AIDS crisis, drug wars, presidential campaigns, the Olympics, five SuperBowls and the World Series. His portraits of key figures range from Mother Teresa and Robert Redford, to President Clinton and Bill Gates. He was selected to shoot on nine of the "Day in the Life" books, including "A Day in the Life of Africa" for which he shot the cover. Doug’s work is featured in many other books.

Throughout the 1980s and '90s, Menuez documented the rise of Silicon Valley with unprecedented access to almost every major technology company, covering digital pioneers such as Steve Jobs, Andy Grove, John Warnock, Bill Joy and John Doerr. Working first for Life Magazine, Menuez continued covering start-ups and established giants as a personal project during one of the most turbulent and significant eras in American business history. Stanford University Library has recently acquired this work and his entire archive for their collection.
       
Menuez’s work has been honored by many organizations, including The AOP London, The Cannes Festival, The One Show, The Art Director's Club of NY, Photo District News, The Epson Creativity Award, American Photography, Graphis, and Communication Arts.  
      
In 1989, Menuez co-produced "15 Seconds: The Great California Earthquake of 1989", which raised over a half-million dollars for earthquake victims. In 1993, Menuez published "Defying Gravity: The Making of Newton,” which was named one of the best 100 books of the past five years by Graphis. Menuez has had shows of his fashion work in Milan, personal work in San Francisco, LA and London and recently published “Heaven, Earth, Tequila: Un Viaje al Corazón de México.” Currently, Menuez is finishing a book on AIDS orphans in Uganda. He lives in Woodstock, NY with his wife and son.