Photographer Franklin Reyes: 1975 - 2014

An Associated Press photographer in Cuba, Franklin Reyes Marrero, has died in a car accident while returning from an assignment west of Havana. Reyes, 39, was driving from the port of Mariel on Monday after working on a story about the Cuban economy. Born in Havana, Reyes began his career as a warehouse employee at the state-run newspaper Juventud Rebelde. He took a photography course offered by Cuba's official journalists' association and became a professional. The newspaper sent him to Mexico and Venezuela, and his photos were published in a book. He began to work for AP in 2009.

For more about Marrero's life and work at The Associated Press, read the AP news story. Below is a gallery featuring a selection of his work. 

Cabaret dancers perform at a gala celebrating Tropicana nightclub's 70th anniversary in Havana, Monday, Dec. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Medical science students hold up a Cuban flag during a march to commemorate the 138th anniversary of the execution of eight medicine students by the Spanish colonial government in Havana, Friday, Nov.27, 2009. Thousands marched to commemorate the event that took place during Cuba's war of Independence.(AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Workers talk next to a wall where a sculpture in honor of the late revolutionary commander Camilo Cienfuegos will be installed at the Revolution square in Havana, Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. The sculpture, created by artist Enrique Avila, will be inaugurated on Wednesday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Cienfuegos' death. The writing on the wall reads in Spanish "You are going well Fidel". (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

A demonstrator is taken away from the street by security agents during a protest in Havana, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Cuban security agents prevented Ladies in White, a group of female dissidents, from marching on the outskirts of the capital to demand the release of their jailed husbands and sons, physically removing them when they lay down in the street in protest. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Fishermen watch as Russia's vessel Kruzenshtern, carrying a photo exhibition, arrives to the port of Havana, Friday, April 9, 2010. The Kruzenshtern was built in 1926 and in spite of its age, is one of the jewels of the Russian sailing fleet. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Cuba's leader Fidel Castro appears on TV during an interview with Cubavision, on its talk show "Mesa Redonda" or "Round Table", in Havana, Monday, July 12, 2010. Castro returned to the limelight Monday after years spent largely out of public view, discussing world events in a raspy voice in his most prominent television interview since falling seriously ill four years ago. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Barber Orlando Gonzalez cuts the hair of young client Maikol as Gonzalez' sister Cilia looks on along a sidewalk in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

In this May 23, 2014 photo, Yusanelis Moras leaves of a room before a performance in Havana, Cuba. Obini Bata is the first orchestra of percussionists made up of women who dared to drum bata drums. Under Afro-Cuban beliefs, the two-sided bata (pronounced ba-TAHí) are sacred, used for connecting with Santeria spirits. Tradition dictates the drums be made only from the hides of male goats. Players must undergo a lengthy consecration ritual. And, above all, the sacred bata are only to be played by men. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

In this June 18, 2014 photo, taxi driver Moises Suarez pushes a radio knob inside a Soviet-made limousine taxi cab in Havana, Cuba. In a former life it was one of the "comandante's" cars: A fleet of black, boxy, Soviet-made limousines that for years were at the disposal of the presidency in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Today the limos have been decommissioned and repurposed as Havana taxi cabs, at the service of tourists who want a little slice of history to go with their ride across town. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

A prisoner looks out from behind his cell as a military guard passes by after his cell was opened at the Combinado del Este prison during a media tour of the prison in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Cuban authorities led foreign journalists through the maximum security prison, the largest in the Caribbean country that houses 3,000 prisoners. Cuba says they have 200 prisons across the country, including five that are maximum security. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

In this March 9, 2013 photo, a man peers from his home's window to watch boxer Frank Sanchez, left, fight with Julio Bernal during a boxing tournament at the Rafael Trejos boxing gym in Old Havana, Cuba. In 1961, two years after the Cuban Revolution, all professional sports were banned and the very concept has been anathema to the island government�s Marxist ideals ever since. Now the island is on the verge of partially reversing five decades of strictly amateur boxing. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Cuba's President Raul Castro, center, attends the opening ceremony of the 19th International Book Fair in Havana, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

ADDS MAN'S DESTINATION AND NAME OF MUNICIPALITY - A man carries a lamb home as he drives on a motorcycle in the municipality of San Antonio de Los Banos in Havana, Cuba, Thursday Jan 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Esilda Espinosa sits next to a statue of the Catholic saint Lazaro, as she waits for a passersby to donate alms that she will use to finance a celebration on the saint's feast day in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. Affectionately known as "El Viejo Lazaro," or the Santeria equivalent, Babalu Aye, the religious icon is usually represented wearing ragged clothes and with dogs licking the sores on his feet. Both the Catholic saint and the Santeria Orisha are associated with suffering and disease and are honored by their devotees on Dec. 17. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

In this Feb. 5, 2014 photo, Divaldo Aguiar, who plays the part of Pachencho, lies inside a mock coffin as villagers splash rum into Aguiar's mouth during the Burial of Pachencho celebration at a cemetery in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba. The bash kicked off Wednesday with the slow procession to the local cemetery. Pallbearers carried the coffin of "Pachencho," who's known the other 364 days of the year as Divaldo Aguiar, to an open grave and used ropes to lower it six feet under. The tradition was born on Feb. 5, 1984, when residents got the idea of putting on a mock burial to mark the end of local carnival season. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

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Opening text expert from the AP Big Story, AP photojournalist dies in car crash in Cuba. 

Lead Image Caption: This undated photo shows Associated Press photographer Franklin Reyes Marrero posing for a photo as he works in Cuba. Reyes died on Monday, Nov. 3, 2014 in a two-car accident while returning from an assignment west of Havana. Reyes is survived by his wife Gricell Fernandez Mendez and his parents. He was 39. (AP Photo)

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