Pablo Alcalá has been a staff photographer for the Lexington Herald-Leader since 2001.  He has covered daily news and sports including University of Kentucky basketball and football and a decade of the Kentucky Derby.  In 2003, Pablo, representing Knight Ridder newspapers, (Now part of McClatchy Co.) was an embedded photojournalist with a battalion of US Marines as they crossed from Kuwait into Iraq until they reached Baghdad during the start of the Iraq War.

Pablo is originally from the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas and grew up on his grandfather’s cotton farm about a mile from the Mexican border.  Pablo graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in photojournalism in 1997.  In college, Pablo learned his trade by being 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.   He has traveled extensively throughout Mexico and Central America.

Pablo lives in Lexington with his wife Jennifer and daughter, Claire.