Eliana Aponte
Havana, Cuba
I was a staff photographer for Reuters for 12 years. Based in Israel and Palestinian territories, Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia, I covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Lebanon-Israel war, the Iraq war, Colombia's conflict, Haiti's 2004 political crisis, Haiti's 2010 earthquake, Central American migration through Mexico to the U.S. Also I covered Rio de Janeiro's carnival and Athens Summer Olympics and many events and top news. Before joining Reuters I worked for AFP in Panama for two years and for newspapers and magazines in Colombia.
I was a jury member of World Press Photo contest 2016 in General News category. Speaker of TedxBogotáMujeres in Colombia 2017. Jury member in Image category of Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI) 2018.
Now I live in Havana, Cuba as a freelancer with a permanent working visa.
- Breaking news
- Editorial
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Reporting
- Still life
