Santiago Lyon
Spanish photographer
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From 2003 to 2016 he was vice president and Director of Photography of The Associated Press responsible for the AP's global photo report and the photographers and photo editors around the world who produce it. From 1984 to 2003 he was a photographer and photo editor.
Biography and career
Born in Madrid, Spain to American parents and raised in Ireland, Lyon has ~40 years of experience in photography and has won multiple photojournalism awards for his coverage of conflicts around the globe - including two World Press Photo prizes and the Bayeux prize for war photography.
He covered the end of the civil war in El Salvador, the U.S. invasion of Panama, the first Gulf War, the Balkan wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, the civil wars in Somalia and Yemen as well as the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan among other major news and sports stories around the world.
He joined the Associated Press in 1991 in Cairo after previously having worked for the Spanish news agency EFE, United Press International and Reuters.
Lyon served as the Associated Press photo editor for Spain and Portugal from 1995 until 2003, when he was named director of photography.
In the same year, he was a Nieman Fellow in journalism at Harvard University.
Under his direction, the AP won three Pulitzer Prizes for photography as well as numerous other major photojournalism awards around the world.
In 2005, the Associated Press earned its 29th Pulitzer Prize for photography, for work on the war in Iraq by a team of eleven photographers, five of them Iraqis.
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