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John Moore is a senior staff photographer for Getty Images, now based in Denver, Colorado. He recently moved from Islamabad, Pakistan, where he lived with his family since 2005.

He grew up in Irving, Texas and studied at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating in December 1990. He began working for the Associated Press in the summer of 1991, first based in Nicaragua, then India, South Africa, Mexico and Egypt, working for the AP for almost 14 years.

Moore joined Getty Images in 2005 and has since worked throughout South Asia, Africa and the Middle East for Getty, before moving back to the US in July, 2008. He has extensively covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, working in the some of the world's most dangerous combat zones. In 2007 alone he was on assignment thrice in Iraq, once in Afghanistan and spent much of the rest of the year covering Pakistan's slide into instability, culminating in the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Moore has won top photography awards over the years from many of the world’s major photographic organizations, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for coverage of the war in Iraq. His coverage of Bhutto’s assassination earned him top awards from World Press Photo and the Robert Capa Gold Medal for courage and enterprise in photojournalism given by the Overseas Press Club.

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Contributions

Passing Thoughts, Paris, May 31, 2008

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