SPC Presents: Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the US-Mexico Border by Photographer John Moore, January 23

The Stamford Photography Club is pleased to bring you a presentation by Getty Images photographer John Moore on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.  Please join us for this great event!  Guests are welcome to come see this show.

JOHN MOORE

Undocumented:  Immigration and the Militarization
of the US-Mexico Border

7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Stamford Government Center
2nd Floor
888 Washington Blvd., Stamford, CT

About the Photographer

John Moore, staff photographer and special correspondent for Getty Images, has photographed in65 countries on six continents and was posted internationally for 17 years including Nicaragua,India, South Africa, Mexico, Egypt and Pakistan.

Moore has won top awards throughout his career, including the Pulitzer Prize, World Press Photo honors, the John Faber Award and the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club,Photographer of the Year from Pictures of the Year International, the NPPA and Sony World Photography Organization. Moore is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied Radio-Television-Film. He lives with his family in Stamford, Connecticut.

Since returning to the United States in 2008, John has focused on the issue of undocumented immigration to the United States. His efforts to humanize the immigrants on their journey as well as the U.S. federal agents tasked with deterring them sets his pictures apart.

Moore has photographed the entire length of the U.S. southern border, and traveled extensively throughout Central America and Mexico, as well as to many immigrant communities in the United States. His work includes rare imagery of ICE raids and mass deportations. His latest work,Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border was released by powerHouse Books in March 2018.

His book is available on Amazon.com and if you bring a copy he will sign it. He will not have copies for sale at the presentation.