Press Releases

06/10/2010

Dave Martin named staff photographer for Alabama

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Dave Martin, who has covered wars, weather disasters and major sporting events around the globe in a career spanning nearly three decades, has been named staff photographer for The Associated Press in Alabama.

Martin's appointment was announced Thursday by Santiago Lyon, director of photography for the news cooperative in New York.

Martin, 55, will rejoin AP based in Montgomery following a three-year stint as a freelance photographer.

He began his photographic career at the Lakeland Ledger in Lakeland, Fla., in 1982, before joining the AP as a staff photographer in Montgomery in 1983. In 2004, he became the AP’s Regional Photo Editor/South, responsible for photo coverage in the southern United States.

An award-winning photographer for AP, Martin covered the Gulf War, the invasion of Afghanistan, numerous hurricanes and natural disasters as well as Olympics, Masters, Super Bowls and other major sporting events.