As a war correspondent and a mother, I’ve learned to live in two different realities… but it’s my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war – to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty. Lynsey Addario Read Quote
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 Read Quote
For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that. Lynsey Addario Read Quote
It seems like, yeah, of course – I always think my work is important, or I wouldn’t risk my life for it. Lynsey Addario Read Quote
I remember the moment in which we were taken hostage in Libya, and we were asked to lie face down on the ground, and they started putting our arms behind our backs and started tying us up. And we were each begging for our lives because they were deciding whether to execute us, and they had guns to our heads. Lynsey Addario Read Quote
I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don’t go directly to the front line. Lynsey Addario Read Quote
Obviously I am a photographer and I believe in my medium: I do think that powerful photographs can force change. It doesn’t take long to look and be engaged in a strong image whereas, with a story, you have to actually sit down and pause and be involved in it. Lynsey Addario Read Quote
