Margaret Moth

Margaret Gipsy Moth (August 21, 1951– March 21, 2010) was a New Zealand-born photojournalist who worked for CNN in the US.

Early life Margaret Wilson was born on August 21, 1951 in Gisborne, New Zealand.

She studied at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, majoring in photography and film.

In 1980, Moth moved to the United States Her jaw was shattered,

She was described by colleagues as quirky, tough, fearless, and funny. It covered many of her dangerous missions, including her shooting in Sarajevo in 1992.

Moth is the subject of a documentary feature-length film co-written and directed by New Zealand actress Lucy Lawless, titled Never Look Away, which had its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition section of the 40th Sundance Film Festival in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, in January 2024. The documentary won the Clio Visualizing History Prize at the 2024 Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. The film was reviewed by The Guardian in November2024.

Personal life Moth never married and did not have children.

A belated obituary appeared in The New York Times on April 11, 2026, as part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths had gone unreported in the newspaper.