Chris McGrath is an Australian born staff photographer with Getty Images, specializing in editorial and commercial assignments.
His career began at a small regional newspaper in Queensland, Australia, where he completed a three-year cadetship and a Diploma of photography.
In 2001, he was recruited by Getty Images, and covered the Asia Pacific region based out of Sydney.
In 2007 Chris relocated to Getty’s New York office and spent the next four years covering news, sports and commercial assignments across the United States and internationally.
Over the past 11 years he has photographed, four Olympic games, the Paralympics, Commonwealth games, the FIFA World Cup, the Rugby World Cup, the MLB World Series, the Super Bowl, the Daytona 500, US Open Golf, numerous US Open and Australian Open Grand Slams, the 2004 Asian Tsunami, the election of Barack Obama and most recently the earthquake and Tsunami in Japan and the London 2012 Olympics.
He has worked for clients such as Nike, NFL, Coca-Cola, the LPGA, NASCAR and the New York Times.
His images are consistently published in premier media publications; Stern, Newsweek, Time, Sports Illustrated, The Independent, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, ESPN the magazine, The Guardian, L'Equipe and on daily news and sport websites worldwide.
His work has been recognized with many industry awards including, World Press Photo, POYi, NPPA, CHIPP, AIPP, The Atlanta Photojournalism contest, PX3 and the New York Press Photographers Association.
In 2011, he was assigned to the Getty Images Singapore office and spent three years covering assignments across South East Asia. Towards the end of 2013 Chris was reassigned to the Getty Images Japan office (Tokyo) for two years.
He is currently based in Istanbul