Venezuela Daily Life

For this installment of AP’s Daily Life series, we feature the South American country of Venezuela and the work of Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Rodrigo Abd.

Rodrigo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is a staff photographer for the Associated Press currently based in Lima, Peru. 

Abd, along with fellow AP photographers, Manu Brabo, Khalil Hamra, and Muhammed Muheisen, were awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his gripping work covering the Syrian civil war.  

The following photos are a selection from Rodrigo Abd's coverage of daily life in Venezuela. 

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Dayanara Monsalve is seen through a window while waiting for her hairdresser to finish hydrating her hair, in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

The face of a girl remains on a damaged billboard, photographed through a car's windshield along a road in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Retired English professor Roque Davis, 78, poses for a portrait in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Oct. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Bride Rhandall Mondelo, 27, center, celebrates after a photo shoot for her weeding in the lobby of an upscale hotel in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

People walk past graffiti written on the street that reads in Spanish: "Dictatorship" in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Oct. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Woman keep their hair dry with plastic bags as it drizzles in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

People salsa dance at a club in the financial district of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A woman cools herself while a man leaves a greengrocery after buying vegetables, in downtown in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Commuters watch a woman perform in a video promotion for a music album by Sofia Insomnia in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Jose Bestilleiro, 83, from Spain, performs for tips at an street intersection in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017. Bestilleiro said he's been performing every day for the past 15 years, and brings in at least 5,000 Bolivars a day, which on the black market is 11 cents and is the price of a cheap "arepa" sandwich. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A girl sits next to Disney characters after a street photographer took her photo in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Nanny Luz Mary watches over as two-year-old Gladys sleeps outside a boutique shops exhibition hall inside a upscale hotel in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Suspected thieves chained together look at police after they were detained in downtown in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A boy plays in the water at Diego Ibarra Park in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Oct. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Wedding guests throw rice at Nalitza Perez, 44, and her groom Jason Cifuentes, 26, outside a church in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Alfredo Lopez, 22, left, and Cesar Munoz, practice parkour at Paseo Los Proceres in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A commuter travels in a cable car over the San Agustin shantytown, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A women dances in the morning, following an all-night party in the presidential suite of an upscale hotel in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A small mask depicting Venezuela's independence leader Simon Bolivar decorates the top of a cross hanging on a wall along the street in La Vega neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A pedestrian covers herself from the rain with a cardboard box in the financial district of Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Photos by Rodrigo Abd

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