Photojournalist Lynsey Addario covers major conflict zones across the globe, including the Middle East, South Asia, Haiti, and Africa.
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Photo Journalist and Pulitzer Prize Winner
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Photojournalist Lynsey Addario covers major conflict zones across the globe, including the Middle East, South Asia, Haiti, and Africa. A Pulitzer Prize winner, she is a regular contributor to National Geographic, The New York Times, and Time magazine. In 2015, American Photo Magazine named Lynsey one of five most influential photographers of the past 25 years for changing the way we see world conflict. Most recently, she has covered the Ukraine-Russia War, the Syrian refugee crisis, the ISIS advance in Iraq, the civil war in South Sudan, and the flow of African and Middle Eastern migrants into Sicily.
Using her powerful and evocative images, Addario brings audiences to the front lines of the geopolitical and human rights issues plaguing our world. Her presentations offer an intimate look at her perilous work and explain what drives her—despite having a family—to keep running toward the danger. With clarity, beauty, and candor, Lynsey shares, in their most intimate moments, the complex lives of others.
Addario began her photography career in 1996 with no formal training or studies. She freelanced for the Associated Press in New York for several years before moving to New Delhi, India to work in South Asia. In 2000, Addario first traveled to Afghanistan to document life and oppression under Taliban rule. She returned to Afghanistan numerous times before 9/11 and then covered conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, Congo, and Libya, where she was among the four New York Times journalists kidnapped in 2011.
Addario’s 2018 book, Of Love & War, is a collection of over two hundred photographs that capture her commitment to exposing the devastating consequences of human conflict.
Her New York Times Bestselling memoir, It’s What I Do, chronicles her personal and professional life as a photojournalist coming of age in the post-9/11 world. It was praised as “A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir that is as inspiring as it is horrific,” in its starred Kirkus Review.
Lynsey has been the recipient of numerous international awards throughout her career, including a MacArthur Fellowship or ‘Genius Grant’ in 2009, the Overseas Press Club’s Oliver Rebbot award for her series “Veiled Rebellion: Afghan Women,” and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for her photographs in the New York Times’ ‘Talibanistan.’ In 2010, Lynsey was named one of 20 women on Oprah Winfrey’s Power List for her “Power of Bearing Witness” and one of Glamour Magazine’s 20 women of the year in 2011.
In 2014, Addario was the official photographer for the Nobel Peace Center’s 10th peace prize exhibition, photographing winners Malala Yousefzai and Kailash Satyarthi at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway.
Addario was part of the New York Times team nominated for an Emmy Award for their series, “The Displaced,” which documented the lives of three children displaced from the war in Syria, Ukraine, and South Sudan.
She received a BA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bates College in Maine, and York University, England. Addario is fluent in Spanish and Italian
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IT’S WHAT I DO: AN EVENING WITH LYNSEY ADDARIO
OF LOVE & WAR: STORIES OF TRAGEDY & RESILIENCE FROM ACROSS THE WORLD
MAKING A NAME FOR MYSELF: HOW RUNNING TOWARD THE DANGER LEADS TO SUCCESS
LEAVING YOUR COMFORT ZONE: THE IMPORTANCE OF ART
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Lynsey Addario Live at Adobe MAX 2016 | Adobe Creative Cloud
TimesTalks: Lynsey Addario
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OF LOVE & WAR
IT’S WHAT I DO
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