Pablo Alcalá has been a staff photographer for the Lexington Herald-Leader since 2001.
While on staff he has covered daily news and sports including University of Kentucky basketball and
football as well as every Kentucky Derby. In 2003, Pablo, representing Knight Ridder newspapers,
now part of McClatchey was an embedded photojournalist with US Marines as they crossed from
Kuwait into Iraq and into Baghdad during the start of the Iraq War.
Pablo is originally from the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas where he grew up on his
grandfathers cotton farm about a mile from the Mexican border and attended the same small school
district, Valley View, where his mother and grandmother attended. Pablo graduated from
the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in photojournalism in 1997. In college,
Pablo learned his trade as a photographer and photo editor for the award winning
college newspaper, The Daily Texan.
Before working at the Herald-Leader, Pablo was a staff photographer at the
Vero Beach Press-Journal in Florida. He has interned at the Philadelphia Inquirer,
the Ft. Worth Star Telegram, the Palm Beach Post, The Santa Fe New Mexican,
and the Bloomington (IN) Herald-Times.
Pablo lives in Lexington with his wife Jennifer and daughter, Claire.
Pablo Alcala
Pablo Alcalá has been a staff photographer for the Lexington Herald-Leader since 2001.
While on staff he has covered daily news and sports including University of Kentucky basketball and
football as well as every Kentucky Derby. In 2003, Pablo, representing Knight Ridder newspapers,
now part of McClatchey was an embedded photojournalist with US Marines as they crossed from
Kuwait into Iraq and into Baghdad during the start of the Iraq War.
Pablo is originally from the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas where he grew up on his
grandfathers cotton farm about a mile from the Mexican border and attended the same small school
district, Valley View, where his mother and grandmother attended. Pablo graduated from
the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in photojournalism in 1997. In college,
Pablo learned his trade as a photographer and photo editor for the award winning
college newspaper, The Daily Texan.
Before working at the Herald-Leader, Pablo was a staff photographer at the
Vero Beach Press-Journal in Florida. He has interned at the Philadelphia Inquirer,
the Ft. Worth Star Telegram, the Palm Beach Post, The Santa Fe New Mexican,
and the Bloomington (IN) Herald-Times.
Pablo lives in Lexington with his wife Jennifer and daughter, Claire.