John Moore
John Moore is a senior staff photographer and special correspondent for Getty Images, having joined the company in 2005 after having worked more than a dozen years for the AP. He has photographed in 65 countries on six continents and was posted internationally for 17 years, first to Nicaragua, then India, South Africa, Mexico, Egypt and Pakistan. He covered global conflicts such as Afghanistan and Iraq, the “Arab Spring” uprisings, natural disasters and heath crises, such as the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, and many other international stories. He returned to the U.S. in 2008, first to photograph the economic recession, and then he began to primarily focus on immigration and border issues. Moore has won top awards throughout his career, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, World Press Photo honors, 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 of 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. His comprehensive and nuanced approach puts a human face on all sides of one of the most hotly debated topics in America today. Moore is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied Radio-Television-Film. He lives with his family in Stamford, Connecticut.
Although John is not planning to bring copies of Undocumented to his NSC presentation, he is more than happy to sign copies of the book for anyone who brings them. First edition copies are still available at powerhouse Books and Amazon.