High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stephen Alvarez (born 1965) is a photojournalist who produces global stories about exploration, culture, religion, and the aftermath of conflict. He has been a National Geographic photographer since 1995. His pictures have won awards in Pictures of the Year International and Communications Arts and have been exhibited at Visa Pour L'Image International Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan, France.Stephen Alvarez's first magazine assignment came in 1991 from Time Magazineto photograph discoveries in Mammoth Cave. He has continued to photograph cave exploration and underground landscapes throughout the world.His first National Geographic assignment in 1995 took him over 20,000 feet up into the Peruvian Andes to photograph the discovery of a 500-year-old Incan Mummy Juanita, the Ice Maiden.