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Spencer Platt (photographer)

American photojournalist (born 1970) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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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.[1]

He was born in Darien, Connecticut.

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