John Moore John Moore is a senior staff photographer for Getty Images. He has been based in Denver, Colorado since the summer of 2008, traveling on both national and international assignments. He was previously based for Getty in Islamabad, Pakistan. Moore grew up Irving, Texas and studied at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating in December 1990. He began working for the Associated Press in 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 worked throughout South Asia, Africa and the Middle East for Getty, before moving back to the US last year. 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 three times 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 AP’s photo coverage of the war in Iraq. As a Getty staffer, his exclusive photography of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto earned him top awards from World Press Photo and the Robert Capa Gold Medal for courage in photojournalism given by the Overseas Press Club.