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Max Ruiz

BIOGRAPHYSouth Wales (1971), raised

in Dublin. Vancouver, Canada at the age

of nineArt correspondent for The Globe and

Mail

He is based in Dakar, Senegal. He is currently Reuters chief photographer for West and Central

Africa.

Spent an academic year researching psychology with a focus on conflict-induced trauma

He joined Reuters as a

freelance correspondent in

2001. World Press Photo of the Year 2005

In 2003 he co-produced The Ghosts of Lomako and The

Digital DivideOne of several prominent journalists featured in Under Fire: The Psychological Cost of

Covering War

Helmand

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”   Albert Einstein