NEW YORK (AP) — Kathy Willens, a pathbreaking photojournalist who helped cement women's place behind the lens everywhere from the Super Bowl to war-torn
Yankees' Aaron Boone presents an autographed picture to Kathy Willens on June 28, 2021, in New York, of her picture of New York Yankees pitcher David Cone after Cone threw a perfect game. NEW YORK — Kathy Willens, a pathbreaking photojournalist who helped cement women’s place behind the lens everywhere from the Super Bowl to war-torn Somalia during her nearly 45-year career at The Associated Press, died Tuesday. She was 74.
Specializing in sports, Willens became a photographer of such stature that the New York Yankees paid tribute to her on the field when she retired. In a pre-game ceremony, team manager Aaron Boone gave her a framed print, signed by former pitcher David Cone, of her own photo of him after he threw a perfect game in 1999.
Working from Miami, Willens covered the 1980 Mariel boatlift, when nearly 125,000 Cubans came to the U.S. in six months, and the aftermath of deadly rioting that occurred the same year after the acquittal of four police officers charged with fatally beating a Black insurance executive named Arthur McDuffie.
Yet Willens also was drawn to stories about Florida’s Haitian and Cuban immigrants, work that would become part of an exhibition at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida in 2004. “She was just really good at finding the right moment,” he said. “Sometimes you had to look at her pictures for an extra second to really get them. But once you saw them, you got how brilliant they were.”
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