Michael Sargent

Vice President for News Services
Getty Images

Sargent joined Getty Images in May of 2001 and now runs their news operation, after a 17-year stint at AFP (Agence France-Presse). Mike has twenty-seven years of experience in the news industry, eleven of them in management.

His news career began as a photojournalist, working on the staffs of five different major daily newspapers in North Carolina and Florida. In 1984, he joined AFP to work in Washington, D.C. at the start of their international photo service. Shortly thereafter, he was assigned to cover the Reagan White House and in 1988, he was recruited at the close of the Reagan administration to work as a White House photographer for George Bush Senior. Within a year, he returned to AFP in the role of Chief Photographer for the Americas and later served as the region's Deputy Photo Director. In 1999 he became the Photo Director for AFP in the Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong, until recruited by Getty in 2001.