John Moore is a senior staff photographer for Getty Images, currently based in New York City. Since 2008 he has lived in the United States after being posted abroad for 17 years, based in Pakistan, Egypt, Mexico, India, South Africa and Nicaragua. He has photographed in more than 70 countries.
For the last decade he has extensively covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the “Arab Spring” uprisings in Libya, Bahrain and Egypt, the famine in Somalia, drug violence in Mexico as well as other conflict zones.
Moore has won top photography awards over the years from many of the world’s major journalistic organizations including World Press Photo in Amsterdam in 2012 for his coverage of the foreclosure crisis in the U.S. and in 2007 for his photography of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan. In 2005 he was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for his team coverage of the Iraq war.
