HAVANA (AP) — 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 in Havana. He was 54.
Boylan was covering preparations for New Year's festivities in Havana for the AP when he felt ill and asked a family if he could rest on their couch, where he died Saturday. Authorities are performing an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Born in Ireland in 1964, Boylan moved to Spain as a child and began working for The Associated Press in Spain in 1989. He later become a photographer for Reuters, where he covered the end of apartheid in South Africa and the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
