The Heroes at Home project for Sears was a really nice collaboration and something entirely different for me. I do very few corporate assignments in my role as a staff photographer for the Getty Images news division, but this particular project for Global Assignments by Getty Images caught my eye because of the subject material – wounded war veterans. I have spent much of the last decade photographing our military service members in combat zones ...
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*Editor’s note: In May 2007, John Moore wrote the poignant blog post below sharing the story behind his award-winning image taken at the Arlington National Cemetery. In observation of Memorial Day, recognized in the US on Monday, May 31, we thought it would be relevant to revisit his story and the over one hundred comments it has generated so far…
After spending much of the last six years covering the wars in Iraq and ...
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KORENGAL VALLEY, AFGHANISTAN: Afghan elders of the Korengal Valley arrive for a meeting with U.S. and Afghan military officials October 30, 2008 at the Korengal Outpost in eastern Afghanistan. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Getty Images staff photographer John Moore reports in from the Korengal Valley.
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John Moore/Getty Images
As the sole American journalist present at the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in late December, Getty Images’ senior staff photographer John Moore was interviewed extensively by international media following the event. What follows, however, is the only account that he has written about that day:
She came out waving and smiling and standing up through the sun roof of her armoured car. I couldn’t believe it then and I still can’t today.
I was ...
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