We are pleased to announce another speaker for the NPAC 2020 Conference, World Press Photo award winning photographer John Moore.
John Moore is a senior staff photographer and special correspondent for Getty Images. In 2019 he was honored with the World Press Photo of the Year in Amsterdam for his iconic image “Crying Girl on the Border.” Moore joined the Getty Images in 2005 after more than a dozen years with the Associated Press. He has worked in some 70 countries on six continents and was posted internationally for 17 years, first to Nicaragua, then India, South Africa, Mexico, Egypt and Pakistan. After returning to live in the United States he began a decade-long project on immigration and border security issues. In 2018 powerHouse Books published his book Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border. His comprehensive and nuanced approach puts a human face on all sides of one of the most hotly debated topics in America today. His most recent work looks at the wildlife tragedy caused by the catastrophic bushfires in Australia.
Moore has won top awards throughout his career, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, five 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 2018 he was given the inaugural Impact Award by the Lucie Foundation. 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.
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