Eduardo Barraza
United States
NORTH AMERICA
I am multimedia journalist with over two decades of experience.I frequently shoot photographs and video simultaneously, as well as write stories in English and Spanish.
I am skilled at producing flash photo-galleries and at editing and producing my own video.I am a “multimedia journalist” in the sense that I can fully develop a multimedia story (text, photography, video and audio).
My main area of action is in Metropolitan Phoenix, Maricopa County and Arizona, but I am able to travel throughout the state, particularly to the U.S.-Mexico border region, as well as throughout Mexico.I am fully bilingual in English and Spanish, and have a deep understanding of the Mexican culture across countries.
Needless to say, I am a “freelancer” able, available and willing to cover stories locally or regionally if out there are media outlets that need, compensate and value this type of professional journalistic work.
My passion has been covering social issues since I was in journalism school in Mexico City, and while interning and later working for newspapers and magazines.My greatest inspiration was not precisely a journalist but the famous Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe Posada, an illustrator who chronicled the period previous to the Mexican Revolution mainly on broadsheets.Posada inspired me by lending his talent to popular causes –sometimes clandestinely and anonymously– and by siding with the underdog as he witnessed government repression unfolding in the streets of Mexico City.
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Schnepf Farms, in Arizona, celebrated its annual Peach Festival where visitors can pluck their own peaches from a tree, and purchase peach products. The event is attended by hundreds of visitors each year in the month of May.
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As the president proposed new gun regulations last week, gun owners demonstrated against it with national "Guns Across America" rallies to defend the Second Amendment. Dozens showed up at the Arizona State Capitol, many of them carrying weapons.
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"Los Tres Grandes", a recently unveiled mural project, create by 14 Arizona artists, honors Mexico's most celebrated artists: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco, considered the three major figures of Mexican muralism.
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Salt River Project(SRP), a prime power and irrigation company, is relocating the White Amur fish used as an environmentally friendly and cost effective alternative to herbicides and heavy machinery for vegetation control in the 131 mile canal system.
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The Release the Fear statue in Phoenix, created in part using about 8,000 pounds of metal from revolver chambers, receivers and shotgun barrels, stands as a symbol for gun control in the US, where recent mass shootings have shaken the nation.
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The country’s first Bill of Rights monument was dedicated in Phoenix across from the Arizona State Capitol in the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza. The monument consists of ten 10 foot-tall limestone monoliths with the 10 US Constitution’s Amendments.
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The 11th annual 'Discover India' festival showed the cultural distinctions of the “Seven Sisters” – seven states that make up northeastern India by bringing together Indian and Indian-American people in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Embattled Hostess Brands Inc., Maker of legendary Wonder Bread and traditional treats such as Twinkies announced that it’s closing its plants and laying off roughly 18,000 workers, thus liquidating the 82-year-old business.
