Rickey Rogers

Born on the east end of Long Island, Rickey spent five years as an oilfield geologist in Egypt before turning his passion for photography into his livelihood. In the 1990s he founded the first news picture agency in Bolivia, and worked for Reuters as a stringer. He then became Reuters chief photographer for Southern Latin America, and later for all of Latam, based first in Buenos Aires, then Sao Paulo, and finally Miami. He was named editor for all the Americas in 2015 with base in New York, and then Global Editor for Pictures in 2017, with base in London. Rickey has recently moved back to the US, and continues to be head of Reuters Pictures while living in Pittsburgh.