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" I grew up in Connecticut, going in and out of New York City, and I worked in the city in the '90s. I was freelancing for the Associated Press, and I fell in love with New York. "
Lynsey Addario
City
Going
Love
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" Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously. "
Lynsey Addario
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" As a woman, I have tried to take advantage of the extra access I have in the Muslim world: with Muslim women, for example. Many people underestimate women in that part of the world because, typically, they don't work. "
Lynsey Addario
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" Since Sept. 11, many of the wars of our generation are in the Muslim world. So as a woman, I have access to 50 percent of the population that my male colleagues don't. "
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" If publications want to publish images and stories from a certain person, they should put that person on assignment, cover his or her expenses, make sure they have access to security briefings and experts, someone to administer first aid, etc. "
Lynsey Addario
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Person
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" I started freelancing for the Associated Press. I had a great mentor there who sort of taught me everything. "
Lynsey Addario
Everything
Mentor
Started
" The truth is, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different talents and different desires. "
Lynsey Addario
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Page
Political
" If I'm doing a story on how a single mother copes in a refugee camp, I'll go to her tent; I'll follow her when she's working, see what her daily life is like, and try to pack that into one composition, with nice light, in one frame. "
Lynsey Addario
Mother
Daily
Daily Life
" The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal. "
Lynsey Addario
Normal
Risk
Trauma
" I got rejected from journalism school! "
Lynsey Addario
Got
Journalism
Rejected
" In so many countries, Western journalists are viewed simply as dollar signs. We're ransom objects. "
Lynsey Addario
Countries
Dollar
Many
" My job is to take the pictures, communicate a message, to bring those images to the greater public through whatever publication I'm working for. My job is really to be a messenger, and that's what I've been doing. "
Lynsey Addario
Job
Pictures
Working
" Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness. "
Lynsey Addario
News
Am
I Am
" I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate. "
Lynsey Addario
Seem
Seen
Rarely
" Becoming a mother hasn't necessarily changed how I shoot, but it certainly has made me more sensitive, and it certainly makes it much harder for me to photograph dying children. "
Lynsey Addario
Mother
More
Shoot
" I think, for me, personally, I try to be sensitive to issues as I learn about them. And I also try to constantly become not only a certain type of person but also become more in tune to the issues I'm covering. As I get older, I think that things just affect me more. "
Lynsey Addario
Try
Person
Me
" I wanted the ideal personal life, but I also wanted to keep rushing off, and that doesn't work, not unless you've got an incredibly understanding partner. "
Lynsey Addario
Partner
Life
You
" I would never think of myself as a role model. "
Lynsey Addario
Role
Think
Myself
" One day I am at home, watching dramatic images of Iraqi Yazidis fleeing for their lives being aired nonstop on 24-hour news channels. Days later, I am there, staring at tens of thousands of displaced Iraqis and feeling a 35-millimeter frame cannot capture the scope of devastation and heartbreak before me. "
Lynsey Addario
Feeling
News
Me
" I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count. "
Lynsey Addario
Than
Count
Worry
" I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see. "
Lynsey Addario
Important
Perspective
Think
" I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough. "
Lynsey Addario
Work
Enough
Feel
" For me, taking photographs is such a tortured process. I'm always feeling like I'm not getting enough: I'm in the wrong place, the light isn't good, the subject's not comfortable. "
Lynsey Addario
Good
Process
Place
" Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act. "
Lynsey Addario
World
Eyes
Death
" Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?' "
Lynsey Addario
Yourself
Me
Know
" The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist. "
Lynsey Addario
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Every Day
Me
" 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. "
Lynsey Addario
Start
Women
Time
" The first time I visited Afghanistan in May 2000, I was 26 years old, and the country was under Taliban rule. I went there to document Afghan women and landmine victims. "
Lynsey Addario
Old
Time
First Time
" I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in. "
Lynsey Addario
Work
Price
Possible
" Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money. "
Lynsey Addario
Expect
Fast
Happen
" I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan. "
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Valley
Car
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