EMILIO MORENATTI

Altar servers crowd a window to watch the passing of the Christ of the San Bernardo brotherhood during Holy Week in Seville, Spain, Wednesday April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
AP PHOTOS: Rain or shine, emotions run high at Seville’s Holy Week processions in Spain
“To see her in the street, I can’t explain it,” said Modesta Montaña as she cried with her daughter when the statue of Our Lady of Sorrows was carried past them by the Hermandad del Cerro, one of Seville’s dozens of brotherhoods. “It’s the happiness that we have her here outdoors, that this quantity
 
The belfry an 11th century Romanesque church emerges from the Sau reservoir, about 100 km (62 miles) north of Barcelona, in Vilanova de Sau, Spain, on Monday, March 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A parched Spain has emerged from drought only to face floods
Drought relief has come at a price in Spain, as flash floods forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes, closed schools and highways and swept cars away.
 
Members of "Colla Joves Xiquets de Valls" form a "Castell" or human tower, during the 29th Human Tower Competition in Tarragona, Spain, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
An AP photographer gets the light just right from a perch up high above a human tower competition
Associated Press photographer and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Emilio Morenatti, of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, has visited more than 50 countries in an acclaimed 30-year career.
 
Members of "Colla Joves Xiquets de Valls" form a "Castell" or human tower during the 29th Human Tower Competition in Tarragona, Spain, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
AP PHOTOS: Human towers rise skyward in Spain’s Catalonia as part of cultural pride
TARRAGONA, Spain (AP) — Dozens of people squeeze together, pressing as tight as they can get. The stronger the foundation they build, the less likely their human tower will collapse.
 
Paralympic athlete Arjola Dedaj, of Italy, competes at Women's Long Jump -T11, at the Stade de France stadium, during the 2024 Paralympics, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
AP photographer finds beauty at the Paralympics in capturing what’s not there
PARIS (AP) — Emilio Morenatti, 55, is the AP’s chief photographer for Spain and Portugal. His worldwide coverage has earned him numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize.
 
This photo taken in Sept. 2007 shows a 20-year-old Lionel Messi, who had embarked on his legendary Barcelona career just over four years prior, helping to bathe Lamine Yamal, who was merely six months old at the time with Yamal's mother Sheila Ebana, during a photo session in the dressing room of the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain. Lamine Yamal is now a soccer sensation for both Spain and Barcelona and he is still only 16-years-old. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)
Photo of a young Lionel Messi with Lamine Yamal as a baby resurfaces after almost 17 years
When Joan Monfort took photos of Lionel Messi with a baby for a charity calendar almost 17 years ago, he knew the long-haired young man would make it big in soccer. He could not have imagined the little boy would as well.
 
A voter fills out a ballot paper during general elections in Nkandla, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, Wednesday May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Here’s how an Associated Press photographer found the extraordinary in a red hat
Associated Press photographer and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Emilio Morenatti has visited more than 50 countries in a 30-year career. He’s always looking to elevate a moment by finding the beauty in the mundane.
 
Worshippers carry an image of the Holy Christ of the Blood while it rains, during a procession through the streets of downtown Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, March 9, 2024. Preceded by nine days of prayers and emulating a documented historical tradition dating back five hundred years, worshippers requested rain as Catalonia last month declared drought emergency for the area of around 6 million people including the city of Barcelona. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
A religious procession in Barcelona celebrates rain during a severe drought in northeast Spain
A religious procession in downtown Barcelona has celebrated the appearance of long-awaited rain after nine days of praying for relief from a severe drought. Around 100 local people took part in the Catholic ceremony on a rainy Saturday evening.
 
Joan Torrent, 64, fills plastic jugs at a natural spring in Gualba, about 50 km, (31 miles) northwest of Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Jan 31, 2024. Joan trudges almost every day into the woods in search of drinking water. Spain's northeast Catalonia is preparing to declare a drought emergency for the area of some six million people including the city of Barcelona. But thousands of people who live in villages and towns in the Catalan countryside have already been in full-blown crisis mode for several months. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Drought-stricken villages in Spain’s northeast struggle to keep drinking water flowing
Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia has declared a drought emergency for the area of around 6 million people including the city of Barcelona.
 
AP PHOTOS: Human tower building in Catalonia complex
The tradition of building human towers, or castells, dates back to the 18th century and takes place during festivals in Catalonia in northeast Spain.