Beyond the Border: Stories of Immigration

ABOUT THE EVENT

Pulitzer-prize winning photographer and Getty Images special correspondent John Moore will present his work documenting immigrations issues for over 15 years, bringing empathy and humanizing the issue while photographing all sides of a complex story.

After the presentation, moderator for the event, Judy Walgren chair of the Foothill College Photography Department, will follow up with an interview and a Q&A session with the audience. Light refreshments included.

ABOUT JOHN MOORE

Photojournalist John Moore is a senior staff photographer and special correspondent for Getty Images. He joined the Getty in 2005 and has worked in over 70 countries on six continents. Moore was posted internationally for 17 years, living in Nicaragua, India, South Africa, Mexico, Egypt and Pakistan. 
Moore has been honored in the profession throughout his career, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his AP Iraq war coverage as well as five World Press Photo honors, including the 2019 Photo of the Year for the iconic image “Crying Girl on the Border” and the 2025 photo “Night Crossing.” He has also been awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal for courage from the Overseas Press Club and the Robert F. Kennedy journalism award for his immigration coverage. 
In 2018 powerHouse books published his book “Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border.” 
Moore is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied Radio-Television-Film. He lives with his family in Stamford, Connecticut.

ABOUT JUDY WALGREN

Judy Walgren is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, photographer, photo editor, curator and chair of the Foothill College Photography Department in Los Altos, California. Before returning to Foothill, she was associate director of the Michigan State School of Journalism, editorial director for a visual media start-up, ViewFind, director of photography at the San Francisco Chronicle and a staff photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News, the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post. She worked alongside John Moore as a photo editor for the Daily Texas, the student newspaper for the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a BS in photojournalism. She received her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Art. Walgren is co-author of Art as Social Practice (Routledge) and Critical Photojournalism: Contemporary Ethics & Practice to be published in 2025 by Routledge. She lives in San Francisco, CA.