Natacha Pisarenko, a photojournalist who has covered major news and sports events across Latin America and around the world, has been named chief photographer for The Associated Press for the Southern Cone countries of Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile.
The appointment was announced Monday by Enric Marti, AP’s regional photo editor for Latin America.
“Pisarenko is a great all-around photographer and has excelled at covering sports and producing poignant photo essays,” said Marti. “She has proven herself to be a capable leader as well, and I am pleased she will be assuming this new role.”
Associated Press photographer Natacha Pisarenko poses for a portrait in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, June 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
In this May 29, 2014, photo, Martin Tata embraces his horse Milonga on a ranch in San Antonio de Areco, Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
In this Jan. 24, 2015 photo, an international scientist collects samples in Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands archipelago Antarctica. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pisarenko will lead a team of photographers while working closely with videographers, reporters and editors across the four countries. She has been acting chief photographer for the region since late last year.
“I’m delighted by Natacha’s promotion,” said Victor Caivano, the AP’s news director for the Southern Cone. “Her new leadership role in the Southern Cone team will elevate our report and keep us ahead with fascinating images and photo-driven stories.”
Pisarenko, 40, joined the AP in Buenos Aires in 2002 and has covered Olympics in Sochi, Beijing and London, the Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally, Carnival celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, the rescue of 33 miners in Chile in 2010 and a devastating earthquake in Chile that same year. She went to Afghanistan on assignment in 2003.
Pisarenko also shoots video, and the vast amount of photos and video footage she produced from a rare visit with scientists to Antarctica early this year were widely used by news outlets worldwide.
Last year, she came up with the idea for a powerful project looking at links that Argentines have made between their health problems and agrochemicals. Her photographs and story with then-Southern Cone Bureau Chief Michael Warren won an award from The Deadline Club, the New York City Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, in the category for science, technology, medical or environmental reporting.
She also won a first place award from the Press Club of Atlantic City in the sports photography category for magazines, news services or syndicates for an image from last year’s World Cup semifinal soccer match between Brazil and Germany.
Born in Buenos Aires, Pisarenko studied photography at the city’s School of Photographic Arts and began her photojournalism career at La Nacion, one of Argentina’s largest newspapers.
Below is a selection of Natacha Pisarenko’s work thru the years with AP.
Click on any image below to launch the gallery.
Horse riders perform at the inauguration of the Rural Society’s annual exposition in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
In this Jan. 27, 2015 photo, an iceberg floats in the Bahia Almirantazgo near Livingston Island, part of the South Shetland Island archipelago in Antarctica. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A demonstrator protests in front of tires set on fire in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Contestants wait to go on stage during the Miss Argentina contest in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Colombia’s singer Shakira performs during a concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Followed by a TV helicopter, Volkswagen’s Nasser Al-Attiyah, of Qatar, and co-driver Timo Gottschalk, from Germany, race in the eighth stage of the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between Antofagasta and Copiapo, Chile, Jan. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A couple rehearses before competing at the Tango Dance World Cup 2012, salon category, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Lien Te-An of Taiwan takes a turn during a training session for the men’s singles luge at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Feb. 7, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A Dutch fan wears a homemade hat during the group B World Cup soccer match between Spain and the Netherlands at the Arena Ponte Nova in Salvador, Brazil, June 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Bulgaria’s players try to stop a spike from Brazil during a 2013 Volleyball World League semifinal match in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Saturday, July 20, 2013. Brazil won 3-1. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Boca Juniors fans cheer for their team during a local tournament soccer match against River Plate in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A model is seen reflected on a mirror backstage during the 2013 Buenos Aires Fashion Week in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
In this May 6, 2013 photo, trees line a road seen through a car in Epecuen, a village which once was submerged in water in Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A child plays soccer in front a mural of Pope Francis at the 1-11-14 slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A transgender poses for a photo before the start of Argentina’s annual gay pride parade in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
In this Jan. 22, 2015 photo, Chilean Navy officers push away ice by moving their boat in circles as they approach the Aquiles navy ship where they will pick up international scientists and take them to Chile’s scientific Station Bernardo O’Higgins in Antarctica. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A car is submerged in flood water in front of a home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
River Plate fans cheer for their team before a Copa Libertadores soccer match against Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Disney Channel star Martina Stoessel, of Argentina, performs in concert as “Violetta,” her character from the Disney Channel television series of the same name, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A white tiger cub growls at the Buenos Aires Zoo in Argentina, March 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Fans of Ecuador’s Liga Deportiva Universitaria wait for the start of the Recopa Sudamericana final soccer match against Argentina’s Estudiantes de la Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Execillent job
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Me alegra mucho esta noticia! Gran profesional Natacha!
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