[1] He is considered "one of the leading conflict photographers of his generation"[2][3] and is a full member of Magnum Photos.
Saman has won multiple awards from World Press Photo[5][6][7] and Pictures of the Year International,[8][9] and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
At the age of one, his family relocated from Peru to Barcelona, Spain, where Moises spent most of his youth.
[14] He covered the Arab Spring and the Syrian Civil War for The New Yorker[2][13] and has worked for Human Rights Watch.
[4] It was during this period in the Middle East that he made Discordia (2016), a book of personal work about the revolution in Egypt and the broader Arab Spring.