Lynsey Addario is an american photojournalist who regularly photographs for The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine. Lynsey’s recent bodies of work include “Veiled Rebellion”, “Talibanistan”, and Battle Company is Out There.” She recently completed a series on infant mortality, juvenile justice, sexual assault of minor, malnutrition, and education in countries across Africa. Photography is Lynsey's life. She makes her own decisions.
Addario graduated from the University of Winsconsin at Madison with no professional photography training. Her photo essays and single images from Iraq,Mexico, and Pakistan have been featured in the American Photo Annual “Best Of” editions in 2003. Her work often focuses on conflicts and human rights issues, especially the role of women in traditional societies. Addario was one of the four New York Times journalists who were missing in Libya from March 16- March 21,2011. They couldn't kill them because they were Americans. But they treated Addario worse because she was a women. Every time they picked up Lynsey to put her in a pickup truck they would grab her breasts and her butt. They called her and her three colleagues dirty dogs. The soldiers wife's threw them food while they were blindfolded.
Lynsey Addario said, "If a woman wants to be a war photographer, she should. It’s important. Women offer a different perspective. We have access to women on a different level than men have, just as male photographers have a different relationship with the men they’re covering." Addario thinks it's not more dangerous for a women to do conflict photography. Both men and women face the same dangers. Being a photographer is physically demanding for Lynsey. She has to make sure she's always in shape because if you do military embeds, people are not going to wait for you. Lybia was hard conflict to cover for Addario, finding that boundary when it's not safe anymore. Every conflict is different and every conflict has different boundaries. You learn the fighting patterns. You try to use that experience to judge how to move forward.
If a woman wants to be a war photographer, she should. It’s important. Women offer a different perspective. We have access to women on a different level than men have, just as male photographers have a different relationship with the men they’re covering. To protect her she hired men to follow her everywhere when she is on assignment. She finds that a women who is alone is more prone to be mistreated than a women who is with men. Her interests are to cover the whole story. She doesn't think she was more than a handful of women the entire time she was in Libya.
People think photography is about photographing. To Lynsey it's about relationships, and it's about doing your homework and making people comfortable enough where they open their lives to you. People underestimate her because she's always laughing and joking. But that helps, they let their guards down. What makes Lynsey Addario memorable is that even though people doubt her and underestimate her she still does her job and goes through a lot of risks all photographer so through. To go to Libya and get kidnapped and then share to the world about what happened makes her even more stronger. Her photographs tell a deep meaning about what's really going on.
Cite sources:
http://thephotosociety.org/member/lynsey-addario-photographer/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/search/?requiredfields=description&proxystylesheet=site_search&output=xml_no_dtd&client=site_search&getfields=%2A&site=photography&q=Lynsey%20Addario&
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/lynsey-addario/its-what-i-do/
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