Close up: Photographer Bernat Armangue

Bernat Armangue, an award-winning photographer, was born in Barcelona and joined the AP there in 2003. He moved to Jerusalem in 2008 where he spent 5 years covering the Middle East, focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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In 2014, he moved to New Delhi to become the AP’s chief photographer for South Asia. He has covered stories ranging from the Arab Spring to the political violence in Kenya in 2008 to Nelson Mandela’s funeral in South Africa. He also has extensive sports experience, including coverage of multiple Summer Olympics to the French Open in Tennis to the Formula One World Championship.

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A youth plays with a soccer ball before the World Cup group F soccer match between Italy and New Zealand at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit, South Africa, Sunday, June 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Magnets for sale are displayed on the car of a Palestinian man at the Kalandia checkpoint, between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Palestinian women wait to cross the Qalandia checkpoint on their way to pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at the Qalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, Friday, Aug. 5, 2011. Muslims across the world are observing the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Glen Amadi, 6, poses in an orphanage on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, Friday Feb. 15, 2008. Amadi says he can't remember where he lives. His mother's name is Eliza, he says, and she braids hair in a salon run by a woman he calls "Mama Dana." All the orphanage workers know is that he was found at a nearby camp for displaced families. Waves of ethnic and political attacks since Kenya's disputed Dec. 27 election have uprooted more than half a million people. In the chaos, parents and children lost track of each other. In addition to more than 1,000 people killed, about 400 children were found alone, without adults. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A Palestinian demonstrator gestures atop the separation barrier, moments after knocking down a segment of the concrete wall, during a protest against the barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin, near Ramallah, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he does not want to run for another term in the January elections, blaming a stalemate in Mideast peace talks on Israel and the United States. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Ethiopian Orthodox Christian pilgrims pray inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, traditionally believed to be the site of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, during the Eastern Orthodox Easter week in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Christians from around the world are in the Holy Land marking the solemn period of Easter. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A Palestinian muslim worshipper walks in an alley of Jerusalem's Old City, on her way to pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque on the third Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Aug. 27, 2010. Muslims throughout the world are marking the month of Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar where observant fast from dawn till dusk. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

An Orthodox priest hears confession of a nun inside the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, during Orthodox Christmas celebrations in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, late Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A child dressed in a clown costume, participates with other Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in the Purim festival at a synagogue in Jerusalem, Thursday, March 8, 2012. The Jewish holiday of Purim celebrates the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Scroll of Esther. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Catholic clergy walk holding candles during the Holy Thursday procession of the Washing of the Feet inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed to be the burial site of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem's Old City, Thursday, April 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Masked Palestinians hurl stones at Israeli troops, not seen, during clashes outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, May 15, 2012 during the 64th anniversary of "Nakba", Arabic for catastrophe, the term used to mark the events leading to Israel's founding in 1948. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were forced from their villages during the war over Israel's 1948 creation, an event they commemorate every year as their "Nakba". (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A young Indian Shiite Muslim flagellates himself during a procession to mark Ashoura in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. Shiites mark Ashoura, the tenth day of the month of Muharram, to commemorate the Battle of Karbala when Imam Hussein, a grandson of Prophet Muhammad, was killed. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Indian Hindu devotees splash water on a large statue of the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha before immersing it in the Arabian Sea on the final day of the festival of Ganesha Chaturthi in Mumbai, India, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Indian Muslims offer prayers to mark the festival of Eid al-Adha at Jama Masjid in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. Muslims in the country celebrate Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, by slaughtering sheep, goats and cows. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2012 file photo, a Palestinian man kisses the hand of a dead relative in the morgue of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. This photo was one in a series of images by Associated Press photographer Bernat Armangue that won the first place prize in the World Press Photo 2013 photo contest for the Spot News series category. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Bachhu Singh, an Indian Hindu man from Baumchalla, poses for a portrait during Lathmar Holy festival, in Barsana 115 kilometers ( 71 miles) from New Delhi, India, Sunday, March 9, 2014. The colorful holiday, celebrated mainly in India and Nepal, marks the beginning of spring and the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A cat sleeps next a Kalashnikov weapon on a Hamas security check point in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

USA's Stuart McNay and Graham Biehl, foreground, compete during the 470 class race at the London 2012 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, in Weymouth and Portland, England. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Khanyile Diko cheers while waiting for the motorcade transporting the body of Nelson Mandela in the town of Mthatha on its way to Qunu, South Africa Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Fireworks explode behind the Olympic torch after it was lit at end of the opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Birds fly past as a man rows his boat in River Yamuna in the morning in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. Clogged with garbage, sewage and industrial runoff, the Yamuna, which is one of Indiaís major rivers, is also one of the most polluted.(AP Photo/Benat Armangue)

An albino man sleeps surrounded of piles of equipment in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Many laborers in the Indian capital have no permanent residence and are forced to sleep in the streets. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Smoke rises after an Israeli forces strike in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. The Israeli military widened its range of targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to include the media operations of the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers, sending its aircraft to attack two buildings used by both Hamas and foreign media outlets. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Brazil's Neymar leaps in the air to celebrate after scoring his side's second goal during the group A World Cup soccer match between Cameroon and Brazil at the Estadio Nacional in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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