United States Agency for Global Media

Fallen Journalist Portrait Project

Twenty-one USAGM journalists have lost their lives in the line of duty.

We have long honored these brave men and women by profiling them on our website, marking the anniversaries of their death on our social media accounts, and of course, on the fallen journalist memorial in USAGM headquarters in Washington, D.C. But we wanted to do more.

The Fallen Journalist Portrait Project uses portraiture to tell the stories of these brave men and women who were killed simply for doing their job.

Each piece uses a different artistic style to convey more about the individuals. Visit the profiles below to learn more about the individual journalists and the artwork that memorializes them.

Ricardo de Mello

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series uses charcoal, colored pencil, marker, and acrylic.

Abdul-Hussein Khazal

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series uses Crayola markers using the pointillism technique.

Khamail Muhsin Khalaf

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series uses cut paper.

Sabawoon Kakar, Abudullah Hananzai and Maharram Durrani

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series uses watercolors.

Nazar Abdulwahid Al-Radhi

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series uses the scratchboard technique.

Bashar Fahmi

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series uses acrylic paint in a surrealism style.

Georgi Markov

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series uses computer-generated, vibrant colors and hard-edged shapes reminiscent of 1960s Pop Art.

Leonid Karas

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series uses a digitally designed faux quilt.

Alisher Saipov

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series was made with stencil graffiti.

Iskandar Khatloni

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series uses a word cloud, photoshop, and hand drawing.

Ogulsapar Muradova

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series is a grid-based painting made from digital art.

Mohammed Bdaiwi Owaid Al-Shammari

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series uses egg tempera and gesso on a wood panel.

Mohammad Ilyas Dayee

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series is made from wet media drawing on watercolor paper with permanent inks.

Abdulrachmann Fatalibey

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series uses the illustrative and narrative style of graphic novels.

Mohammed Ali Nuxurkey

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series was made with drawing and multi-media assemblage.

Ali Nur Siad

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series is in the style of objet trouvé, or found object.

Almigdad Mojalli

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series is made up of multiple linoleum block prints.

Mukarram Khan Aatif

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series stacks layers of cut metal to form an abstract portrait.

Vira Hyrch

This installation in the Fallen Journalist Portrait Series is made using digital art techniques.