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Spencer Platt (photographer)

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American photojournalist (born 1970)
Platt in front of one of his photographs

Spencer Platt (born March 16, 1970) is an American photojournalist.

Since 2001, he has documented international conflicts for Getty Images in the Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, Liberia, Iraq, Ukraine and many other countries. 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. He was co-winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography.

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.

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