Richard Koci Hernandez

Photographer

Birthday December 11, 1969

Birth Sign Sagittarius

Birthplace Ventura, CA

Age 54 years old

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About

Emmy-winning visual journalist known for spending more than fifteen years working with the San Jose Mercury News. His work there earned him two Pulitzer nominations and he has been featured in publications like Time, USA Today, and Newsweek.

Before Fame

He graduated from San Francisco State University where he later became a guest instructor.

Trivia

He has become incredibly popular on Instagram where his haunting and surreal black and white photographs have earned him a following of more than 240,000 fans.

Family Life

The Ventura native later settled in Oakland, California.

Associated With

Like Sebastiao Salgado, he is an established photojournalist and award-winning photographer.