Roberto Borea, 51; Photographer With AP Won the Pulitzer Prize

Roberto Borea, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who produced scores of compelling pictures during a 30-year career with Associated Press, has died. He was 51.

Borea died Jan. 6 of stomach cancer at his home in Catonsville, Md.

One of his photos was among 20 by AP staff that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. His picture showed the Clinton family -- President Clinton, Chelsea and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton -- and their dog, Buddy, walking across the White House lawn to a helicopter en route to Martha’s Vineyard after the president’s televised confession of an affair with Monica Lewinsky. Many newspapers used the photo on the front page.

Borea was born in Rome and grew up in New York City. His father, Raimondo, was a freelance photographer.

Roberto Borea earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and history from New York University. He was a copy boy and proofreader for the Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., and a photographer for the Journal News in Rockland, N.Y.

He started working for AP in 1973. Borea covered a wide variety of major events over the next three decades, including the 1984 Super Bowl and the 1988 Democratic National Convention. He spoke Italian and Spanish, and covered the U.S. invasion in Panama in 1990, the Gulf War and the burning oil fields of Kuwait in 1991.

He is survived by his wife, Jeri Clausing, and his mother, Phyllis, and sister, Carla Borea Brown, both of New York City.