Lynsey Addario
Lynsey Addario
Lynsey Addariois an American photojournalist. Her work often focuses on conflicts and human rights issues, especially the role of women in traditional societies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth13 November 1973
CountryUnited States of America
drives human
The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist.
taking
The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.
amount ground huge start time women
When I'm documenting, for example, a story on women in Afghanistan, I will do a huge amount of research and a lot of time on the ground just getting to know the women before I even start shooting.
I'm a very open person, very self-deprecating. I accept my flaws.
I would never think of myself as a role model.
caught society stay work
I try not to get caught up in how our society is so inundated with images, and stay very focused on the work that I'm doing.
associated great sort taught
I started freelancing for the Associated Press. I had a great mentor there who sort of taught me everything.
invasion saddam visited
I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.
cover determine whether
I didn't want my gender to determine whether or not I could cover breaking news.
covered female less single
I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.
people willing
Americans are really lovely people - friendly, kind and willing to help you out.
according life taliban women worried
Photography of any living being, according to Taliban rule, was illegal. So when I went to Afghanistan, immediately I was worried about photographing people. But it was what I wanted: to show what life was like under the Taliban, specifically for women.
perspective
I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.
interest interested knew lied women
I knew that my interest lied in international stories. I was interested in how women were living under the Taliban, for example.