Spencer Platt (photographer)

Spencer Platt (born March 16, 1970) is an American photojournalist.^[1]

Platt in front of one of his photographs

Since 2001, he has documented international conflicts for Getty Images^[2] in the Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, Liberia, Iraq, Ukraine and many other countries.^[3] At the end of the 2006 Lebanon War he photographed five young Lebanese driving through the rubble of the bombed South Beirut in a cabriolete. This image was named World Press Photo of the Year 2006.^[4][5][6] He was co-winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.^[7]

He was born in Darien, Connecticut.

References

1. "World Press Award winning photographer, Spencer Platt's talk", Rutgers University
2. "Featured photojournalist: Spencer Platt". The Guardian. 13 January 2011. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
3. ""Mein Foto ist zu perfekt"". Stern. 27 April 2007. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
4. "2007 Spencer Platt WY". World Press Photo. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
5. Putz, Ulrike (28 February 2007). "Catering to a Lebanese Cliché: World Press Photo Mix-Up". Spiegel. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
6. "Lebanon war image causes controversy". BBC News. 8 March 2007. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
7. "Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum and Jon Cherry of Getty Images". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2022-05-13.

External links

• Official website