Photographer Emilio Morenatti

Emilio Morenatti, a native of Spain who studied graphic design, is currently based in Barcelona and has worked exclusively for the AP since March 2004. Morenatti has years of experience in war zones, working for the AP in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories. In 2006, he was kidnapped in Gaza City and freed unharmed after 15 hours.

The following year, he suffered a broken leg from a fragment of a stun grenade while covering a West Bank protest. In August 2009, Morenatti was injured while on assignment in Afghanistan. Morenatti is a multiple award-winning photographer, garnering more recognition for his work in the last 3 years than almost any other AP photographer, including the NPPA for Best of Photojournalism story in 2012. (AP)

An opposition supporter looks on as he warms himself next to a fire by a barricade near Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014. Ukraine's embattled president Viktor Yanukovych is taking sick leave as the country's political crisis continues without signs of resolution. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

The body of anti-Yanukovych protester Bailuk Alexander, 40, killed in a recent clash with riot police in Kiev's Independence Square, is seen in a coffin during his funeral on Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, in Ukraine. Official reports say 82 people were killed in severe clashes between opposition activists and riot police. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A pair of boots sits on top of a barricade at the Independence Square, in Kiev, Ukraine,, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. Ukraine put its police on high alert after dozens of armed pro-Russia men stormed and seized local government buildings in Ukraine's Crimea region early Thursday and raised a Russian flag over a barricade. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Gas masks from opposition supporters are seen next to a barricade in Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Ukraine's acting government issued a warrant Monday for the arrest of President Viktor Yanukovych, last reportedly seen in the pro-Russian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, accusing him of mass crimes against protesters who stood up for months against his rule. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A delivery man pushes a wheelbarrow following a storm in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, March 6 , 2013. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Women wearing the traditional mantilla are seen next to a man dressed as a Roman at the entrance gate of La Macarena church before taking part in a procession during Holy Week in Seville, Southern Spain, Thursday, April 21, 2011. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A man rides a horse through a bonfire as part of a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, about 100 km west of Madrid, Spain on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. On the eve of Saint Anthony's Day, hundreds ride their horses through the narrow cobblestone streets of the small village of San Bartolome during the "Luminarias," a tradition that dates back 500 years and is meant to purify the animals with the smoke of the bonfires and protect them for the year to come. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Hooded penitents from the ''La Candelaria" brotherhood line up as they leave the church to take part in a procession in Seville, Southern Spain, Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Egyptian anti-Mubarak protesters are seen inside a plastic tent at Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. Egypt's largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, said it would begin talks Sunday with the government to try to end the country's political crisis but made clear it would insist on the immediate ouster of longtime authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

An Egyptian anti-Mubarak protesters sleeps on the wheels of a tank at Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. Egypt's vice president met a broad representation of major opposition groups for the first time Sunday and agreed to allow freedom of the press and to release those detained since anti-government protests began, though Al-Jazeera's English-language news network said one of its correspondents had been detained the same day by the Egyptian military. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Egyptian anti-Mubarak protesters rest next to the tracks of a tank at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. Egypt's vice president met a broad representation of major opposition groups for the first time Sunday and agreed to allow freedom of the press and to release those detained since anti-government protests began, though Al-Jazeera's English-language news network said one of its correspondents had been detained the same day by the Egyptian military. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Anti-government protesters celebrate in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt Friday, Feb. 11, 2011, following the announcement of the resignation of Egyptian President Mukarak. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Egyptians try to reach a bus as Tunisia Army soldier tries to stop them at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Thursday, March. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Men, who used to work in Libya but recently fled the unrest, are seen next to their tents in a refugee camp at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Saturday, March 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Men from Bangladesh, who used to work in Libya and fled the unrest in the country, wait to be called during their repatriation process as they try to leave for their country in a refugee camp at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Monday, March 14, 2011. More than 250,000 migrant workers have left Libya for neighboring countries, primarily Tunisia and Egypt, in the past three weeks. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

People celebrate in their boats sailing along a canal in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tuesday April 30, 2013. Around a million people are expected to descend on the Dutch capital for a huge street party to celebrate the first new Dutch monarch in 33 years. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A barefoot faithful kneels in prayer in St. Peter's Square as cardinals are gathered in the Sistine Chapel for the second day of the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel for a second day of voting to choose a new pope after their first ballot yielded no winner and a great plume of black smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko poses for a photo during an interview with the Associated Press in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Tymoshenko says the West must force Russia to withdraw troops from the Crimean peninsula and that Ukraine should not agree to any compromises with Russia. (AP Photo / Emilio Morenatti)

A fisherman works fixing his net at the fishing port of Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. The Spanish government says that the euro 39.5 billion ($51.3 billion) in bailout funds approved by European authorities for the country's troubled banks has arrived. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Men performance as they beg for charity in a street in Madrid, Spain, Monday, May 14, 2012. Spain got caught up in the uncertainty surrounding the European single currency and the electoral stalemate in Greece Monday as it saw its borrowing costs rise and stock prices fall at alarming rates. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A nun reacts after white smoke billowed from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel indicating that a new pope has been elected in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who chose the name of Pope Francis, is the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Hooded penitents from the La Paz brotherhood walk to the church to take part in a procession in Seville, Spain, Sunday, March 24, 2013. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

China's Juan Yao competes before wining the women's shot put F42/44 final at the 2012 Paralympics in London, Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Competitors start a heat of the Women's 200m Individual Medley at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, July 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Ukraine's Laroslav Semenenko stretches ahead of Men's 100m Backstroke S6 category at the 2012 Paralympics Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Lex Gillette of the United States leaps in the men's long jump F11 (visual impairment class) at the 2012 Paralympics in London, on September 4, 2012. - Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo

An anti-Yanukovych protester cries near a memorial for the people killed in clashes with the police at Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday delayed the formation of a new government, reflecting political tensions and economic challenges following the ouster of the Russia-backed president. Parliament speaker Oleksandr Turchinov, who was named Ukraine's interim leader after President Viktor Yanukovych fled the capital, said that a new government should be in place by Thursday, instead of Tuesday, as he had earlier indicated. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A woman police officer yawns at centre, as she and fellow officers cordon off one of the entrances to the parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. The threat of new protest violence in Ukraine is tapering off but the country's two-month-old political and economic crisis remains far from being resolved, the European Union's foreign policy chief said Wednesday. EU envoy Catherine Ashton spoke after meeting with President Viktor Yanukovych, who has been the focus of months of massive protests demanding his resignation. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A woman sells candies in a street heading to Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014.. Ukrainian opposition leader Vitali Klitschko, after meeting with the country's beleaguered president, is warning that tempers are heating up and says the president must take action to resolve the country's political crisis. Klitschko's meeting on Tuesday with President Viktor Yanukovych came as parliament held a session that took no action. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Men and woman, one of them with a Ukrainian flag, attend a political speech on a stage set in Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. Ukraine's president will return Monday from a short sick leave that had sparked a guessing game as to whether he was taking himself out of action in preparation to step down or for a crackdown on widespread anti-government protests. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

An opposition supporter guards the entrance to one of the streets leading to Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. The mayor of a western city warned that his police would fight any troops sent in by the president. The governor of an eastern region posted an image of an opposition lawmaker beaten bloody, saying he couldn't contain his laughter. Two months into Ukraine's anti-government protests, the two sides are only moving further apart. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Jockeys race their horses across the beach during the Atlanterra Grand Prix in the south of Spain, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Workers from Telefonica phone company take part in a demonstration blocking the traffic and protesting against the unjustified dismissals at their company ahead of a general strike in Barcelona Spain, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. Spain's main trade unions will stage a general strike, coinciding with similar work stoppages in Portugal and Greece, to protest government-imposed austerity measures and labor reforms. The strike will be the second in Spain this year. The masks reads in Spanish: "I am a profitable person". (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

An activist of Mortgage Victims' Platform (PAH) is carried by riot police officers after occupying a bank as part of a protest to support a neighbor who is facing an eviction process in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, July 11, 2013. With 26 percent unemployment, Spain is struggling to emerge from its second recession in just over three years as the economy battles to recover from the collapse of its once-booming real estate sector. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

An inactive carousel is seen covered with a plastic sheet in a street heading to Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Ukrainian opposition leader Vitali Klitschko, after meeting with the country's beleaguered president, is warning that tempers are heating up and says the president must take action to resolve the country's political crisis. Klitschko's meeting on Tuesday with President Viktor Yanukovych came as parliament held a session that took no action. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A cat sits on a pew as worshipers attend a mass in the Saint Anton church in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. It is the animal's patron saint day in which thousands of people all over Spain bring their pets to churches to be blessed. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A penitent from the La Paz brotherhood is seen inside a car as he arrives to the church to take part in a procession in Seville, Spain, Sunday, March 24, 2013. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A demonstrator shows his hands covered with blood of a fellow demonstrator as police officers try to remove them during clashes in Barcelona, Friday, May 27, 2011. Truncheon-wielding police in Barcelona have clashed with protesters at a makeshift camp that is one of dozens erected in Spain to protest high unemployment and other woes. Officers in riot gear were accompanying workers tasked with cleaning up the nearly two-week old camp at Plaza de Catalunya and police used force when protesters would not evacuate the camp temporarily as requested. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Coal miners are seen behind their handmade shields as they defend their position from riot police officers inside the mine "El Soton" during clashes in El Entrego near Oviedo, Spain, Friday, June 15, 2012. Strikes, road blockades, and mine sit-ins continue as 8,000 mineworkers at over 40 coal mines in northern Spain continue their protests against government action to cut coal subsidies. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A woman walks past barricades set up by anti-Yanukovich protestors at Kyiv's Independence Square, in Ukraine, Thursday, March 6, 2014. - Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo

A boy is helped by his mother to light a candle inside an improvised church at the Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. Ukraine put its police on high alert after dozens of armed pro-Russia men stormed and seized local government buildings in Ukraine's Crimea region early Thursday and raised a Russian flag over a barricade. - Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo

A man rides a bicycle as the sun sets on the Mediterranean coast of Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. - Emilio Morenatti / AP Photo

A woman walks on the beach as the sun sets on the Mediterranean coast of Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. - Emilio Morenatti / AP Photo

Men and women listen to a political speech inside Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014. - Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo

A child looks up to a figure representing an altar boy asking for donations inside a church in Medina Sidonia village, in Cadiz province, Spain, on March 29, 2013. - Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo

A barefoot penitent from the “Los Estudiantes” brotherhood walks to a church before taking part in a Holy Week procession in Seville, Spain, on March 26, 2013. - Emilio Morenatti/AP

A man smells a glass of red wine during a degustation of national wines in the streets of the El Borne neighborhood in Barcelona, Spain, on Nov. 26. - Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press

A woman begs as people walk along a street in downtown Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. The number of people registered as unemployed in Spain has risen by 22,572 in September, bringing an end to a six-month streak of gradual declines. - Emilio Morenatti/AP

Spain's bullfighter Jose Tomas performs at the Monumental bullring in Barcelona, Spain, on September 25, 2011. On that day, Spain's powerful northeastern region of Catalonia bid farewell to the country's emblematic tradition of bullfighting with a final bash at the Barcelona bullring before a ban took effect.- Emilio Morenatti / AP

Romanian musician plays the accordion in the street in front of the Royal Palace, Madrid, Spain, September 25, 2013. - Emilio Morenatti | AP

An unemployed sells watches and canned tuna on a street in Barcelona on 4 March 2013. More than 5 million people are registered as unemployed, a record for the country hardest hit by the recession. - Emilio Morenatti / AP Photo

A fisherman in Barcelona works on fixing his nets. 13 December 2012, Emilio Morenatti/AP

A man places flowers on the tomb of a relative in a cemetery during All Saints Day, a Catholic holiday to reflect on the saints and deceased relatives in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. - Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo

A woman sits in a cafeteria and watches rail workers march inside the Barcelona Sants railway station during a protest during a partial national rail strike in Spain, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. Emilio Morenatti / AP Photo

A woman dressed in traditional costume holds flowers to be delivered at the monument of a leader killed during the fall of the city in 1714 in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. Thousands of people demonstrated in Barcelona on Tuesday to join a rally demanding independence for Catalonia, in north-eastern Spain, on the Catalan national day. Emilio Morenatti / AP

Masked miners sit on the road as they block the traffic in Cinera, near Leon, Spain, Monday, June 11, 2012. Strikes, road blockades, and mine sit-ins continue as 8,000 mineworkers at over 40 coal mines in northern Spain continue their protests against government action to cut coal subsidies. Emilio Morenatti / AP

Patricia Madrid, 31, wears the traditional "mantilla" as she takes part in a procession in Malaga, Spain, Thursday, April 4, 2012. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. - AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti

Penitents from the ‘La Candelaria’ brotherhood shelter from rain during a storm in Seville, Southern Spain, April 3, 2012. - AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti

A man holds a toy pistol as he begs in the street in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. - Emilio Morenatti / AP

Riot police officers stand next to demonstrators during clashes in Barcelona on Friday. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Demonstrators spend the night at Sol square during a protest in Madrid, Saturday May 21, 2011. Thousands of Spaniards defied a ban on a pre-election demonstration and have mounted a protest camp in the heart of the Spanish capital to express anger at political parties and the country's handling of the economic crisis. The crowds have packed Puerta del Sol square since last Sunday and pledged to stay there until after municipal and regional elections this weekend. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A woman passes by Ukrainian recruits receiving military instructions in Kiev’s Independence Square, Ukraine. (photo: AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Riot police officers stand guard on Sunday outside Independence Square in Kiev. Opposition protests have entered a third month. CreditEmilio Morenatti/Associated Press

Anti-Yanukovych protesters march in the Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014.AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti

A demonstrator stands next to burning tires during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. Following days of rioting in northern Haiti over suspicions that U.N. soldiers introduced a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people, protesters in Haiti's capital clashed with police Thursday lashing out at U.N. peacekeepers and the government, blocking roads and attacking foreigners' vehicles. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A girl is photographed near to the barricades blocking a street heading to Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

An opposition supporter engraves a baton with the word "Maidan," referring to Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's unrest on January 31. Photo/Emilio Morenatti

People walk along a street following a storm in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday 6 March 2013. - Emilio Morenatti / AP Photo

CONGRATULATIONS to Emilio Morenatti who won the 3rd prize (Contemporary Issues, singles) - WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2013 with this picture:

Mireia Arnau, 39, reacts behind the broken glass of her shop, stormed by demonstrators during clashes with the police at a general strike in the city. Workers livid over labor reforms they see as flagrantly pro-business staged a nationwide strike and tried to bring the country to a halt by blocking traffic, closing factories, and clashing with police in rowdy demonstrations. - 29 March 2012, Barcelona, Spain.

U.S. soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade take positions next to their armored vehicles during a patrol on the outskirts of Spin Boldak, near the border with Pakistan, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 7, 2009. Thousands of U.S. troops are deploying in southern Afghanistan as part of an effort to prevent the Taliban from disrupting the country's Aug. 20 presidential ballot. (AP Photo/ Emilio Morenatti)

U.S. soldiers from the 5th. Striker Brigades walk next to armored vehicles as they arrive at their base on the outskirts of Spin Boldak, about 100 kilometers (63 miles) southeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009. Thousands of U.S. troops are deploying in southern Afghanistan as part of an effort to prevent the Taliban from disrupting the country's Aug. 20 presidential ballot. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) 

U.S. soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade take positions next to their armored vehicles during a patrol near the border with Pakistan, on the outskirts of Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 7, 2009. Thousands of U.S. troops are deploying in southern Afghanistan as part of an effort to prevent the Taliban from disrupting the country's Aug. 20 presidential ballot. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

In this Aug. 28, 2010 photo, Associated Press photographer Emilio Morenatti runs during a photo session in a Mexico City public park, one year after he lost his leg during an attack while on assignment in Afghanistan. For those who lost a limb or more in the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 15, 2013, was the day their world changed forever.

Morenatti's world changed also, on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009, when during his embed in southern Afghanistan with the U.S. military as a photographer for The Associated Press, which was to have been his last patrol before going home, the eight-wheel armored Stryker vehicle where he was traveling in with U.S soldiers hit a roadside bomb and flipped over, knocking him unconscious.

Morenatti, who lost his leg below the knee in the bomb blast, says that if those maimed in Boston were to ask him what was harder, the physical or psychological recovery, he would say the two go hand-in-hand. "If you don't confront the feelings of loss, the fact that your world has changed, you never fully recover from the amputation," writes Morenatti. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)(Credit: AP)

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