John Moore is a senior staff photographer for Getty Images, based in Denver, Colorado since the summer of 2008. Prior to Denver, he was based in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Moore grew up Irving, Texas and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. He began working for the Associated Press in 1991, first based in Nicaragua, then India, South Africa, Mexico and Egypt, working for the AP for almost 14 years.
Moore joined Getty Images in 2005 and worked throughout South Asia, Africa and the Middle East before moving back to the U.S. in 2008. He has extensively covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, working in the some of the world's most dangerous combat zones.
In the United States, he has focused on covering the U.S recession, the foreclosure crisis and is currently working on a major photo essay surrounding the national health care debate.
Moore has won top photography awards over the years from many of the world’s major photographic organizations, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for AP’s photo coverage of the war in Iraq. As a Getty staffer, he was named the top photojournalist in the United States in 2008, winning both Magazine Photographer of the Year from Pictures of the Year International and Photographer of the Year from the National Press Photographers Association. His exclusive photography of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto earned him top awards from World Press Photo and the Robert Capa Gold Medal for courage in photojournalism given by the Overseas Press Club.
