HUMAN INTEREST

From presidents, actors and tech pioneers to orphans and earthquake survivors, American photographer Doug Menuez has spent 40 years photographing stories about our shared humanity

- Graeme Green

Doug Menuez

Born in Texas in 1957, Doug Menuez played in a blues band in his teenage years before training as a photographer at San Francisco State University. Since the late 1970s, his career has encompassed a range of genres, from photojournalism and documentary photography to film-making and commercial projects.

Menuez’s work has been exhibited around the world and his books include Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 19852000, Heaven, Earth, Tequila: Un Viaje al Corazón de Mexico, Fifteen Seconds: The Great California Earthquake of 1989, and Transcendent Spirit: The Orphans of Uganda. He now lives in upstate New York.

To see more of Doug’s work: @dmenuez www.menuez.com/

There are 7.8 billion people living on Planet Earth, so when American photographer Doug Menuez outlines his area of interest as “humanity”, he’s not short of subject matter.

In his 40 years as a photojournalist, documentary photographer and director, Menuez has captured a diverse cross-section of humanity, from leaders and luminaries, including President Clinton, Mother Teresa, and Jane Goodall, A-list actors such as Robert Redford, Cate Blanchett and Christopher Walken, through to scientists, astronauts, drug dealers and environmental activists.