Spencer Platt is based in New York City.
Spencer Platt joined Getty Images in 2001. Currently he covers stories in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. His work has appeared in such publications as Time, Newsweek, Stern, Paris Match and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Platt has won numerous awards for his work throughout the world including Photography of the Year (POY) and the NPPA Year in Pictures. In 2006, Platt received the coveted World Press Photo of the Year award for an image in taken in Beirut. Spencer Platt grew up in Westport, Connecticut and attended Clark University. Platt lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Platt has recently teamed up with Doctors without Borders (MSF) to focus on neglected humanitarian situations throughout the world. With DWB he has covered the plight of displaced Congolese, the Kurds in Turkey and the war ravaged villages of Central African Republic. His coverage of the plight of Somali refugees in Kenya is his latest project with Doctors without Borders.
