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 based internationally for 17 years, first to Nicaragua, then India, South Africa, Mexico, Egypt and Pakistan.
Moore has received top honors throughout his career. In 2005 his team with the Associated Press was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for coverage of the U.S. war in Iraq. In 2008, the Overseas Press Club awarded him the Robert Capa Gold Medal and he was named Photographer of the Year from Pictures of the Year International, the National Press Photographers Association and Sony World Photography Organization for his coverage of the assassination of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. In 2019, he was awarded the Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award and the World Press Photo of the Year for his work on Immigration issues.
In March 2018, powerHouse Books published his book Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border. This reportage represented ten years of Moore's work on issues of immigration in the U.S. and Latin America. The goal of the project was to take a comprehensive and nuanced approach in humanizing the issue of immigration, a topic often overly simplified and heavily politicized in the United States.
Moore is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied Radio, Television and Film.
