Close up: Photographer Jerome Delay

Close up: Photographer Jerome Delay

Jerome Delay is AP’s chief photographer for Africa, based in Johannesburg. After working as an AP stringer in Denver, Colorado and as a staff photographer for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Washington, DC, Delay has been on staff with the AP in a variety of roles: chief photographer in Jerusalem, staff photographer and international photo editor in Paris and international photographer based in London and in Paris. He has covered the White House, the Calgary Winter Olympics and World Cup soccer, as well as conflicts all over the world: the Middle East (Israel, Palestine, South Lebanon, Iraq), Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, the Congo), the Balkans (Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia), Northern Ireland, Haiti, Kashmir and Afghanistan.


An anti-Balaka Christian militiaman holding a bow and arrow stands in, what days before, was a predominantly Muslim area of the Miskin district of Bangui, Central African Republic, Tuesday Feb. 4, 2014. All Muslim shops on the avenue leading to PK5 …
Peul women sit in a house across the Nour Islam mosque where they found refuge in Bangui, Central African Republic, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. More than 500 people have been killed over the past week in sectarian fighting in Central African Republic,…
A man suspected to be a Muslim Seleka militiaman lies wounded after being stabbed by newly enlisted FACA (Central African Armed Forces) soldiers moments after Central African Republic Interim President Catherine Samba-Panza addressed the troops in B…
Children swimming in a river near the Central African village of Bobangui, some 50 mms (30 miles) south-west of the capital Bangui, in an area controlled by anti Balaka Christian militias, wave and smile at the photographer on Sunday Jan. 26, 2014. …
A Congolese child sits in the Kiwanja catholic church, North of Rutshuru, 75 km (48 miles) North of Goma, Congo, Sunday Aug. 5, 2012. 2012. Congo's army now controls only the city of Goma and the village of Kibumba, 10 kilometers (six miles) outside…
Travelers driving from Niamey, Niger, line up to be searched at the entrance of Gao, northern Mali, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. Soldiers from Niger and Mali patrolled downtown Gao on foot Tuesday, combing the sand footpaths through empty market stalls t…
Marabou Husein Aba Ali reads prayers at the mosque at PK12, the last checkpoint at the exit of the town, Tuesday Feb. 11, 2014, where he and 3500 other Muslims have sought refuge from sectarian violence, awaiting for transport from Bangui, Central A…
A Malian man sits on a window sill to watch the Nigeria versus Mali Africa Cup of Nations semifinal soccer match taking place in South Africa, in Gao, northern Mali, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
In this picture taken Wednesday, July 18, 2012, Zali Idy, 12, poses in her bedroom in the remote village of Hawkantaki, Niger. Zali was married in 2011. In January 2012, soon after she turned 12, she was carried on a bullock cart to her 23-year-old …
In this eight-photos combo, Anti-Balaka Christian militiamen pose for a portrait outside Central African Republic's capital Bangui, Sunday Dec. 15, 2013. The leader of the Christian militia says his fighters won’t put down their rebellion until Pres…
A Malian man dressed in green walks between green doors of closed shops in Gao, northern Mali, Tuesday Feb. 5, 2013. Troops from France and Chad moved into Kidal in an effort to secure the strategic north Malian city, a French official said Tuesday,…

Jerome Delay is The Associated Press' chief photographer for Africa.

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