Cheryl Gerber is a freelance journalist and documentary photographer working in New Orleans. She has been a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Associated Press, and New Orleans Magazine and has been a staff photographer for Gambit Weekly since 1994. Gerber has won several awards for her work on social issues and news photography, as well as for her book New Orleans: Life and Death in the Big Easy.
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