About

John Moore

United States

John Moore is a senior staff photographer and special correspondent for Getty Images, who lives in Stamford, Connecticut.

He has worked in 70 countries on six continents and was posted internationally for 17 years, first to Nicaragua, then India, South Africa, Mexico, Egypt and Pakistan. 

Moore has won top awards throughout his career, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, the John Faber Award and the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club, Photographer of the Year from Pictures of the Year International, the NPPA and Sony World Photography Organization.

In March 2018, powerHouse Books published his book Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border. This work represents ten years of Moore's photojournalism on the issues of immigration and border security in the United States. The goal of the project was to take a comprehensive approach in humanizing the issue of immigration, which is often related in terms of statistics. 

Moore is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied Radio, Television and Film. 

World Press Photo Involvement:
2025 World Press Photo Contest winner
2019 World Press Photo Contest winner 
2012 World Press Photo Contest winner
2008 World Press Photo Contest winner
2005 World Press Photo Contest winner

John Moore on Social Media:
Instagram: @jbmoorephoto​
Twitter: @jbmoorephoto

John Moore

Portrait credit: Andre Costantini