Adriana Zehbrauskas

Adriana Zehbrauskas Adriana Zehbrauskas is an independent documentary photographer based in Phoenix, AZ. Contributing photographer to The VII Foundation

08/08/2026

On assignment in Haiti.

"When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself." -Edward Steichen, quoted in Penelope Niven's Steichen: A Biography

Adriana Zehbrauskas

08/07/2026

Moving portraits, Family Matters series, Colombia.

I have always been fascinated by family portraits and how much of our identity they represent. The story told by posed portraits of the family is one of change over time; family groups look different at different times, thus also telling a story about where and how we live. Maybe through them we try to assert that in a world of constant change and inevitable loss, there are things that time has no right to destroy.
Adriana Zehbrauskas

08/07/2026

Behind the scenes of my Family Matters series, Huehuetonac, Guerrero, Mexico. Video by the fantastic Arin Pereira
Adriana Zehbrauskas

08/04/2026

Moving portrait, San Basílio Palenque, Colombia, 2019, Family Matters series.

I have always been fascinated by family portraits and how much of our identity they represent. The story told by posed portraits is one of change over time; family groups look different at different times, thus also telling a story about where and how we live. A family portrait is a profound way to define ourselves. In those pictures we say: These are who we are.

A person photographed has achieved a moment of redemption, saved from the fate of being forever forgotten.

Adriana Zehbrauskas

08/02/2026

Charcoal worker, Fort-Liberté, Haiti, 2021.

Haiti has experienced a long-simmering crisis for about 15 years, a period marked by a devastating earthquake, squandered aid dollars, tarnished international interventions and flawed presidential elections. Adriana Zehbrauskas

08/01/2026

Yolaidis Beatriz, 27, y su hija Shaileth Vanessa en Hatonuevo.

They are from the Wayuu tribe in the La Guajira region of Colombia y Venezuela. Living in small, isolated communities, they’re struggling to keep a number of ancient traditions and rituals alive. The men are dedicated to hearding goats and sheep and women to handcrafts, but the dwindling rainfall pattern has made shephearding an extremely arduous and unprofitable activity.

From my “Family Matters” series, these are cell phone posed family portraits that celebrate cultural resistance and identity in communities striving to preserve their identities.

Adriana Zehbrauskas

07/30/2026

Mother and daughters, Hatonuevo, Colombia. From my “Family Matters” series, these are cell phone posed family portraits that celebrate cultural resistance and identity in communities striving to preserve their identities.

07/28/2026

Harvesting salt in Las Coloradas, Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula.

07/27/2026

Outdoor hair salon in an internally displaced camp at a school in Port-of-Prince, Haiti, 2024.

The U.N. estimates that 1.3 million Haitians are living out of their homes in the wake of an explosion of gang violence. Some are living with relatives but many are sheltering in schools, government buildings and other places that lack basic services, like bathrooms and running water.

Over the past three years, people have had to abandon their homes when gangs attacked their neighborhoods. The gangs have since banded together to take over major highways, kidnap hundreds of people and delay long-overdue presidential elections.
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