Tom Stoddart

Tom has traveled to over 50 countries, exposed thousands of rolls of film and met everyone from kings to killers along the way.

He began his photographic career on a local newspaper in his native North-East of England. In 1978, he moved to London and began working freelance for publications such as the Sunday Times and Time Magazine.

During a long and varied career he has witnessed such international events as the war in Lebanon, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of President Nelson Mandela and the wars against Saddam Hussein in Iraq. His recent extensive work on the catastrophic AIDS pandemic blighting Africa has been widely published and exhibited.

Now established as one of the world’s most respected photojournalists, Tom is represented by, and works closely with, Getty Images to produce powerful photo-essays on the serious world issues of our time.

Chris Hondros

Chris Hondros is a staff photographer for Getty Images. After studying English Literature at North Carolina State in 1993 and conducting his graduate work in photojournalism at Ohio University, Hondros moved to New York to concentrate on international reporting. Since then, he has covered assignments in Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, Iraq and Liberia.

He was awarded USAID Photojournalism Grant in 1999 and was a fellow at the Pew Fellowship for International Reporting at Johns Hopkins University in 2007. Hondros’ images have received dozens of awards including honors from World Press Photo, the National Pictures of the Year Competition, the Visa Pour L’Image in France and the John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club in New York. In 2004, Hondros was a nominated finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography for his work in Liberia.

Today, he is living in New York City.

Mario Tama

Mario Tama studied photojournalism at Rochester Institute of Technology where he graduated with a BFA in 1993. After graduation he began shooting for the Daily Journal newspapers in suburban Washington, D.C. He then freelanced for The Washington Post and Agence France-Presse in Washington.

Mario joined Getty Images as a staff photographer in 2001 and has since covered several global events including September 11, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, the funeral of Pope John Paul II and more recently Hurricane Katrina - before, during and after the storm. He has received numerous awards from Pictures of the Year International, NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism Competition and the White House News Photographers Association.

His work on Baghdad’s orphans was exhibited at Visa Pour L’Image in France and his photographs from Hurricane Katrina were featured in National Geographic, Newsweek and newspapers worldwide. In 2006 he was named Photographer of the Year by the New York Press Photographers Association.

John Moore

John Moore, 40, from Irving, Texas is a senior staff photographer for Getty Images based in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he has lived with his family for more than 2.5 years. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in late 1990, Moore began his international career with the Associated Press. During almost 14 years with the AP, he was based in Nicaragua, India, South Africa, Mexico and Egypt, and photographed in more than 80 countries on five continents. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, Moore has extensively covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, covering the US and British military in some of the world’s most dangerous combat zones.

Since joining Getty Images in 2005, Moore has worked throughout South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, covering the Israel-Lebanon conflict of 2006. In 2007 he was on assignment three times in Iraq, once in Afghanistan and spent much of the rest of the year covering Pakistan’s slide into instability, culminating in the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Moore has won photography awards from the Overseas Press Club, The Society of Professional Journalists, and World Press. He was also on a team that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for their coverage of the war in Iraq.