Matt Moyer

Moyer started his career at, The Citizen, a small daily newspaper in Auburn, NY. After almost two years he moved to Cairo, Egypt where he lived for three years learning Arabic and immersing himself in the local culture. While in Egypt, Moyer worked on a project documenting the plight of child laborers. Photographs from this project received multiple awards in the Pictures of the Year competition.

After leaving Egypt, Moyer settled in New York City where he worked for editorial and corporate clients including The New York Times, Goldman Sachs, and Merrill Lynch. Moyer was in New York on September 11, 2001 and photographed the events at ground zero.

Moyer returned to the Middle East in April 2003, entering Iraq just after Baghdad fell to US troops. He spent four months working in Iraq for publications such as The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, People, and Marie Claire documenting the plight of the Iraqi people and the struggles of the US forces.

Moyer received his first assignment for National Geographic magazine in October 2003 when he returned to photograph the Shia of Iraq. Moyer recently finished working on another project funded by National Geographic, looking at the private military industry and the guns for hire that make up the industry’s foot soldiers. Moyer is currently working on his third story for National Geographic magazine.

Moyer was named a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Moyer’s documentary work has appeared in several books including National Geographic Pictures of the Year 2004, Witness Iraq, Report From Ground Zero, and The Best of Photojournalism 1997.  Moyer's photographs have also been exhibited in New York, NY and Washington, DC.