ABSTRACT
Spencer Platt, an American photojournalist on staff with the Getty Images wire service, has covered the Iraq War, the plight of displaced Congolese, the minority Kurds in Turkey, the conflict in the Central African Republic, fighting in Gaza, Syrians displaced by the country’s ongoing civil war, the Peshmerga and refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan, and the recent war in Ukraine, among other places and peoples in crisis. This chapter presents an interview of Spencer Platt by Lauren Walsh. In the interview, Platt discusses his experiences as a staff wire photographer for Getty Images and describes several photographs. The photographs include a rally in Battery Park to protest President Trump’s immigration policies, the body of Jamal Affana, Wooden angels stand in a yard down the street from the sandy hook elementary school, and an Iraqi child sleeping on the floor of an empty store at a construction site outside of Erbil, Iraq.
