Lynsey Addario

In 2009, Lynsey Addario won The MacArthur Fellowship, or “Genius Grant”, a five-year grant to individuals who show exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future. That same year, she was part of The New York Times team that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for her photographs in the article, Talibanistan, published in The New York Times Magazine. In 2015, American Photo magazine named her one of the five most influential photographers of the past 25 years and noted that, “Addario changed the way we saw the world’s conflicts”. She has also won the Excellence in International Reporting Award from the International Center for Journalists in Washington, DC, a Gaudium award from The Breukelein Institute in New York, and the El Mundo Journalism Award in Barcelona, Spain. In 2016, she was part of The New York Times team nominated for an Emmy Award for her collaboration in The Displaced, a series documenting the lives of three refugee children, for The New York Times Magazine.

Addario has had two books published. Ironically her first, , is a memoir only, illustrated by her photographs. It’s a story about being a conflict photojournalist and everything that entails, including the question, why, which Addario admits she has been asked relentlessly; the unfathomable horrors of war, which she details in vividly pictorial language; the job’s personal difficulties, which are complex and unsolvable; and the frustrations, which include the