HAVANA — Desmond Boylan, a photographer who covered war and conflict across the world before dedicating his life to documenting the daily joys and tribulations of life in Cuba for The Associated Press, died suddenly while on assignment on Saturday afternoon in Havana. Born in Ireland in 1964, Boylan moved to Spain as a child and began working as a photographer for The Associated Press in Spain in 1989. He was known as a consummate wire-service photographer, able to transition seamlessly from grueling conflicts to sporting events. Boylan covered conflict again in southeast Asia and Afghanistan before the couple and their son Michael returned to Cuba in 2009. “I’ve always been struck by how Cubans confront difficulties and resolve problems,” Boylan told Russia Today’s Spanish-language service in a 2016 interview.

Source: National Post December 30, 2018 21:00 UTC