I come from a big family of hairdressers; they didn’t read newspapers. I would say, ‘I’m off to Afghanistan…’ and they would say, ‘Have fun!’ Lynsey Addario Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq – I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 – that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there. Lynsey Addario Read Quote
I didn’t want my gender to determine whether or not I could cover breaking news. Lynsey Addario Read Quote
Don’t expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don’t be concerned about money. Lynsey Addario Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I was undeterred by the danger of traveling as a single American woman through Taliban-governed land. I believed in the stories I wanted to tell, the stories I felt were underreported, and I was convinced that that belief would keep me alive. Lynsey Addario Read Quote
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 Read Quote
