The Profile Dossier: Lynsey Addario, the War Photographer Capturing Our Collective Humanity
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“I choose to live in peace and witness war—to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.”
Ukraine. Afghanistan. Iraq. Darfur. Libya. Syria. Lebanon. South Sudan. Somalia. Congo. Over the past 15 years, war photographer Lynsey Addario has covered every major conflict and humanitarian crisis on the planet. As she sees the destruction and the pain through the lens of her camera, her images translate that intense emotion to people across the globe. She’s had a number of close calls on the job — she has been kidnapped in Libya, abducted in Iraq, and injured in a car accident in Pakistan. But the one consistent thread throughout Addario’s career is that she never puts the camera down…
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