John Moore: Homecoming Overshadowed by Concern for Colleagues

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John Moore of Getty Images is back home with his family in Denver after covering the uprisings from Cairo to Libya — click above to hear his descriptions of a hard six weeks in which he dealt with equipment seizures and physical assaults by protesters.

He returned home as his colleagues Lynsey Addario, Tyler Hicks, Stephen Farrell and Anthony Shadid of the New York Times, with whom Moore had worked closely his last two weeks in Libya, were captured by pro-Gaddafi forces and prevented from making contact with their families or editors. Within days of their capture, Getty’s Joe Raedle and two Agence France-Presse journalists, Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt were also arrested by government officials. They were released earlier this week in Tripoli.

The NYT journalists recount their experiences in this article; click below to see an AP report on the release of Raedle, Schmidt and Clark.

Photo by Paul Conroy/Reuters – New York Times photographers Tyler Hicks (right, in glasses) and Lynsey Addario (far left), run for cover during a bombing run by Libyan government planes at a checkpoint near the oil refinery of Ras Lanuf on Friday, March 11. John Moore of Getty Images, a 2008 Ochberg Fellow, is second from left.