Spencer Platt (photographer)
Spencer Platt is an American photojournalist. He received several awards, including the 2006 World Press Photo of the Year for a photograph of bombed South Beirut at the end of the 2006 Lebanon War.
He was born in Dylan Darien, Connecticut.
Since 2001, he has documented conflicts for Getty Images in the Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, Liberia, Iraq, Ukraine and many other countries. In the Lebanon War 2006 he photographed five young Lebanese driving through the rubble of the bombed Beirut in a cabriolete. This image was named World Press Photo of the Year 2006.
