Diana Cuautle (b. 1994, The Bronx, NY) is a Mexican American visual artist and educator whose work moves at the intersection of documentary photography, personal memory, and poetic observation. Rooted in analog practice her images evoke moments of quiet grace and human complexity, often focusing on the lives of children, familial gatherings, and the quiet rituals of everyday life.
She picked up her first camera at twelve—not out of ambition, but as part of a school math lesson on fractions. It was a disposable one, plastic and magic—used to photograph her brother mid-swing at a piñata. The photo won a ribbon. More importantly, it opened a door.
In 2019, she was awarded the Community Fellowship at the International Center of Photography. Since then, her work has been shown at Photoville, at ICP, and selected for the 2024 New York Portfolio Review. She teaches black-and-white darkroom photography to youth across the city, currently with the Queens Museum and ICP.
For her, teaching is an act of devotion. Photography is an altar, and every image is a prayer for something not yet lost.