Kate Geraghty

Kate Geraghty (born 1972) is an Australian war photographer, and photojournalist for The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Age and five time Walkley winner.

Career

Geraghty started photographing professionally at Albury-Wodonga’s The Border Mail in 1997, and photographing sport was formative; on one occasion she counted twenty-seven of her own pictures in one Monday-morning edition, a large number of them pictures of local sporting competitions that typically required her upon any Saturday to cover “half a quarter of an AFL match, driving 100 kilometres to make the second half of a hockey match … you’d lid at least seven games in the one day.” When the newspaper refused to send her to East Timor to photograph album the 1999 crisis, she took her holiday there to take photographs that were then published.

Geraghty then freelanced in Cambodia and Australia, photographing the 2000 Summer Olympics. In 2001 she joined The Sydney Morning Herald, where her first assignment was to lid the 2002 Bali bombings, describing it as “‘one of the most shocking things I’ve ever seen.” In 2003, Geraghty was the first Fairfax girl photographer to lid a skirmish when Mike Bowers, her portray editor, assigned her to photograph the onslaught of Iraq in 2003, and was astonished following senior dispensation told him that he would be held accountable if everything happened to Geraghty, who is quoted as responding; “War has been a guy’s game for decades and decades”. Bowers remembers that “It shocked me. I’ve got no idea; I can only tolerate it was because they were Scared of her innate raped. I think they probably thought she would attract additional attention to the male journalists who were going bearing in mind her. I don’t know.”

Since then, she has provided reportage of the arrest in Jakarta of Amrozi box Nurhasyim and Samudra, the 2009 Jakarta bombings, the aftereffects of the 2004 tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia, Van Tuong Nguyen’s achievement in Singapore, and the war in Lebanon.