John Moore is a senior staff photographer for Getty Images, currently based in New York City. Since 2008 he has lived in the United States after being posted abroad for 17 years, based in Pakistan, Egypt, Mexico, India, South Africa and Nicaragua. He has photographed in more than 70 countries.
In 2014 alone, he covered the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, the immigration crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border, the conflict in eastern Ukraine and photographed a widely-published series of photos in central Iran. In 2013 he spent much of the year photographing immigration and border security issues throughout the United States.
Moore has won top photography awards over the years from many of the world’s major journalistic organizations including World Press Photo in Amsterdam in 2012 for his coverage of the foreclosure crisis in the U.S. and in 2007 for his photography of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan. In 2005 he was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his team coverage of the Iraq war, and was a Pulitzer finalist for his photography of the Arab Spring in 2012.
Portraits of Heroes at Home follows Pulitzer Prize Winning photojournalist John Moore as he creates portraits of four soldiers and learns of their harrowing injuries on the battlefield and their remarkable stories of recovery.