Maria Elena Esquivel
Maria Esquivel is a Costa Rican born photojournalist.
She attended Journalism School in 1975 and Fine Arts in 1977 at Universidad de Costa Rica.
Along with her studies in communication and arts, she also studied english as a second language, photography and crafts.
In 1989 she travelled to the United States as a special correspondent to THE WHITE HOUSE and the US SENATE for "La Nacion," the main daily newspaper in Costa Rica.
During her 15 years in the news she covered the wars of Nicaragua and El Salvador, working for the Associated Press while having her photos in some of the most important newspapers and magazines around the world including the New York Times, Newsweek, Miami Herald, UsNews & World Report, Forbes and the Washington Post among others.
Most recently she published a photo of Dr.Michael Jacobson, director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in PlayBoy Magazine, to illustrate an important article about nutrition.
Since 1989 she has been working for CSPI as a food-photographer for their magazine with 1 million suscribers, based in Washington DC.
Currently she's learning computer graphic-design and digital photography and is back into teaching photography to the latino community in Maryland.
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