Spencer Platt (photographer)

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

[1] 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.

Platt in front of one of his photographs