Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario (born 1973) is an American

photojournalist.[1] Her work often focuses on conflicts Lynsey Addario
and human rights issues, especially the role of women
in traditional societies.[2] In 2022, she received a
Courage in Journalism Award from the International
Women's Media Foundation (IWMF).[3]

Life and work

Addario giving a talk in 2009
Lynsey Addario was born and raised in Westport, Born 1973 (age 50–51)
Connecticut, to parents Camille and Phillip Addario, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.
both Italian-American hairdressers. She graduated
Nationality American
from Staples High School, in Westport in 1991 and
from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1995.[4] Alma mater University of Wisconsin–Madison
She also holds two Honorary Doctorate Degrees, one Occupation Photojournalist
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Spouse Paul de Bendern
Humanities, and another from Bates College in Maine.
Awards MacArthur Fellowship

Addario began photographing professionally with the

Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina[5] in 1996 with, as she says, "no previous photographic training". In the
late 1990s, she moved back to the United States and freelanced for the Associated Press in New York
City, only to move back to South America less than one year later. Focusing on Cuba and the effect of
communism on the public, Addario made a name for herself. She moved to India a few years later to
photograph for the Associated Press, leaving the United States.[6]

While living in India, Addario traveled through Nepal, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, focusing on
humanitarian and women's issues.[7] After the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, Addario
resolved to photograph Afghanistan and Pakistan under the Taliban.[6]

In 2003 and 2004, Addario photographed the Iraq war in Baghdad for The New York Times.[8] She has
since covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur, Republic of the Congo, Haiti, and Ukraine.[9][10] She
has covered stories throughout the Middle East and Africa.[11] In August 2004 she turned her attention to
Africa, focusing on Chad and Sudan.[12][13]

She has photographed for The Atlantic, The New York Times,[14] The New York Times Magazine, Time,
Newsweek, and National Geographic.[15]

In Pakistan on May 9, 2009, Addario was involved in an automobile accident while returning to
Islamabad from an assignment at a refugee camp. Her collar bone was broken, another journalist was
injured, and the driver was killed.[16]
Addario was one of four New York Times journalists who were missing in Libya from March 16–21,
2011. The New York Times reported on March 18, 2011, that Libya had agreed to free her and three
colleagues: Anthony Shadid, Stephen Farrell and Tyler Hicks.[17] The Libyan government released the
four journalists on March 21, 2011.[18] She reports that she was threatened with death and repeatedly
groped during her captivity by the Libyan Army.[19]

In November 2011, The New York Times wrote a letter of complaint on behalf of Addario to the Israeli
government, after allegations that Israeli soldiers at the Erez Crossing had strip-searched and mocked her
and forced her to go through an X-ray scanner three times despite knowing that she was pregnant.[20]
Addario reported that she had "never, ever been treated with such blatant cruelty."[21] The Israeli Defence
ministry subsequently issued an apology to both Addario and The New York Times.[22]

The extensive exhibition 'In Afghanistan'[23] at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway has her photos of
Afghan women juxtaposed with Tim Hetherington's photographs from American soldiers in the Korangal
Valley.

Addario's bodies of work include "Finding Home" a year-long documentary following three Syrian
refugee families and their stateless newborns over the course of one year as they await asylum in Europe
for Time, The Changing Face of Saudi Women for National Geographic and "The Displaced" for The
New York Times Magazine, a reportage documenting the lives of three children displaced from war in
Syria, Ukraine, and South Sudan. Addario spent four years documenting the plight of Syrian refugees in
Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq for The New York Times, and she has covered the civil war in South
Sudan, and Maternal Mortality in Assam, India, and Sierra Leone for Time.[6] In 2015, Addario published
her memoir It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War and Warner Bros bought the rights to
a movie based on the memoir, to be directed by Steven Spielberg and to star Jennifer Lawrence as
Addario.[24] She also released a photography book in October 2018 titled "Of Love and War".

In March 2022, Addario covered Russian war in Ukraine on behalf of the New York Times.[25] While
reporting from Irpin adjacent to Kyiv, Addario photographed a Russian mortar attack on evacuating
civilians.[26] The incident was also filmed by Andriy Dubchak, working freelance for the New York Times.
They witnessed the Russian forces adjust their mortar fire directly at the civilians and then a mortar round
exploded about 20 meters away from the journalists. In the immediate aftermath, Addario took a photo of
a group of four victims. A mother and two children were killed and a man accompanying them was
seriously injured and later died. She said that the photo is historically important "[b]ecause it's a war
crime. And it's happening."[27] The photo was published on the front page of the newspaper on March
7.[27][28] A few days later, the woman who was killed was identified, and her children who died were her
18 year old son and 9 year old daughter. A volunteer with a religious organization that had been assisting
the family was also killed. The woman was an employee of SE Ranking, a software company with offices
in London and California.[29]

Family
Addario married Paul de Bendern, a journalist with Reuters, in July 2009.[30][31] They have two
children.[32][33]

Publications by Addario
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War. New York: Penguin, 2015. ISBN 978-
1594205378.
Of Love & War. New York: Penguin, 2018. ISBN 9780525560029.

Awards
2002: Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography.[34]
2008: Getty Images Grant for Editorial photography for her work in Darfur.
2009: MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.[35]
2009: Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, part of which was for her work in
Waziristan.[36]
2015: American Photo Magazine named Addario one of the five most influential
photographers of the past 25 years, writing that "Addario changed the way we saw the
world’s conflicts."
2017: Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement.[37]
2018: Emmy Award nomination for 'Finding Home', with a team of others, for Time[38][39]
2019: Honorary Doctorate from the University of York[40]
2020: Induction into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum[41]
2022, Courage in Journalism Award, International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF).[3]
2023: George Polk Award in Photojournalism for iconic photo of family slain fleeing Ukraine.
[42]

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External links
Official website (http://www.lynseyaddario.com)
Peter Hossli: "It's a Calling" (http://www.hossli.com/articles/2015/06/15/its-a-calling/)
Interview with Lynsey Addario from June 15, 2015
"Inside the Mind of a Genius: Lynsey Addario" (https://web.archive.org/web/2009110314430
6/http://www.theroot.com/views/inside-mind-genius-lynsey-addario), The Root

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