Bear Guerra

Biography

Bear Guerra was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in Photojournalism for his 2009 VQR photo essay, “The Young Mothers of Port-au-Prince,” and was a 2013–2014 Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado.

http://www.bearguerra.com/

See Work

#VQRTRUESTORY / Spring 2018

Exile in White

By Ruxandra Guidi ,  Photography by Bear Guerra

It’s Friday morning. As has been his custom for almost three decades, Miguel Natividad Borrayo is dressed in white, from his T-shirt to his shoes, to honor those imprisoned for challenging the Castro regime—men like him, who spent seventeen...
#VQRTRUESTORY / Winter 2017

Starting Over

By Ruxandra Guidi ,  Photography by Bear Guerra

From a block away in Los Angeles’s Chinatown, we can just barely make out a sound unlike any we’ve ever heard, as if from underwater—melancholy, dissonant, otherworldly music. It pulls us toward the corner of Broadway and Alpine, where an...
REPORTING / Summer 2016

Rocket Frog

By Ruxandra Guidi ,  Photography by Bear Guerra

Ruxandra Guidi follows Andrés Merino-Viteri and his team as they work to preserve native frog populations in Ecuador. Photography by Bear Guerra.
REPORTING / Summer 2011

Rising Tides

By Ruxandra Guidi ,  Photography by Bear Guerra

For the subsistence fishermen of the Kuna Yala Islands, the greatest danger is the encroaching ocean they depend on.

REPORTING / Fall 2010

Mother of God, Child of Zeus

By Jessica Benko ,  Photography by Bear Guerra

I want to lie like the street dogs do, bare stomach skyward, inviting the lightest touch of breeze. The men here rest that way too, in plastic chairs shaded by blue-tarp awnings, T-shirts hiked up over their bellies. Small, naked children...