Emilio Morenatti Associated Press Photographer Collection Emilio Morenatti

Emilio Morenatti Associated Press Photographer Collection

Emilio Morenatti (39) began his career in photojournalism at a local newspaper in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, while studying to be a draughtsman. In 1992, he joined Agencia EFE, the leading Spanish news agency, and moved to Sevilla. From there he covered a variety of national and international events, including several Olympic Games and the 2002 Iraq War. At the end of 2003 he went to Afghanistan as a correspondent for The Associated Press. Based in Kabul, he covered the democratic process in the country after the fall of the Taliban regime. In 2005, AP sent him to cover the Middle East conflict from Gaza and Jerusalem. He is currently based in Pakistan, covering Central Asia for AP. Morenatti's many accolades include prizes in The Fuji European Press Awards 1996 and The National Headliner Awards 2005 and 2006.

AP photographer Emilio Morenatti takes pictures as he is carried on a stretcher out of the University of Maryland Medical Center's R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center to be transferred to the Kernan Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Hospital in Baltimore, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2009. Morenatti, whose left foot was amputated after he was injured by a bomb blast in Afghanistan, was transferred Tuesday to a rehabilitation hospital in Baltimore, where he will be fitted for a prosthesis.

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