Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographer and University of Texas at Austin Alumnus to Speak

6:30 - 8 p.m., Thursday, April 27

Event:  As one of this year’s Hearst lecturers, Pulitzer Prize winner John Moore will present “Iraq — Invasion, Occupation and Trial by Fire,” featuring photos from 2002 in the Kuwaiti desert and culminating in the courtroom of the Saddam trial in 2005.  

All College of Communication students are invited to attend.

When: 6:30 - 8 p.m., Thursday, April 27

Where: Jesse H. Jones College of Communication, University Auditorium (CMA 2.320).

Background: Moore, a 1990 graduate from the Department of Radio-Television-Film, was part of an Associated Press team of 11 photographers who won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in photography in the breaking news category for coverage of the conflict in Iraq.

Moore became a photographer for the Associated Press in 1991 and has worked as a photo editor and chief photographer in areas including India, South Africa, Mexico and the Middle East.  During 2004, he was the Associated Press photo editor for the Middle East and was based in Cairo.  It was during this time that he was embedded with the U.S. military and traveled throughout Iraq, capturing several of the 20 Pulitzer Prizewinning images of the bloody yearlong combat inside Iraq.  In 2005, Moore joined Getty Images as the senior staff photographer based in Islamabad, Pakistan covering South Asia and the Middle East.

He is speaking at The College of Communication as part of the College’s William Randolph Hearst Lecturers program, which hosts visitors to the college for one to three days.  The Lecturers program is one of three components of the Hearst Visiting Professionals program, which was endowed by the William Randolph Foundation in 1990.   The other two components are the Professional-in-Residence program, which provides 30-day fellowships to visiting professionals, and the Hearst Fellow Award honoring individuals whose distinguished careers in communication make them outstanding role models for students.

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