Spencer Platt (photographer)
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Spencer Platt (born March 16, 1970) is an American photojournalist.[1]
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
[edit]- ^ "World Press Award winning photographer, Spencer Platt's talk", Rutgers University
- ^ "Featured photojournalist: Spencer Platt". The Guardian. 13 January 2011. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
- ^ ""Mein Foto ist zu perfekt"". Stern. 27 April 2007. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
- ^ "2007 Spencer Platt WY". World Press Photo. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
- ^ Putz, Ulrike (28 February 2007). "Catering to a Lebanese Cliché: World Press Photo Mix-Up". Spiegel. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
- ^ "Lebanon war image causes controversy". BBC News. 8 March 2007. Retrieved 2019-10-11.
- ^ "Win McNamee, Drew Angerer, Spencer Platt, Samuel Corum and Jon Cherry of Getty Images". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
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