Best of - Lynsey Addario: Portraits of Love and War

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🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Last week, a shocking photograph was seen around the world. It showed a Ukrainian mother and her two children - lying dead on the street - killed by Russian mortar fire. The picture was taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario. Addario has covered wars and humanitarian crises in 70 countries, including Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and now Ukraine. She has been kidnapped twice and has been badly injured on the job, but she is determined to open our eyes to the state of the world and the human toll of violence, no matter the risk. This episode originally posted in 2018, but is just as timely today. Lynsey Addario is a lively storyteller who brings emotion and humor to every tale, whether she’s describing growing up the child of hairdressers, the harrowing details of her kidnapping in Libya, or the heartbreaking work of documenting women who die in childbirth. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2018-2022

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Alice.
0:05.0	Perhaps the most searing photograph so far from the war in Ukraine is of a mother and her two children lying dead in the street covered by blood.
0:15.5	They were killed by Russian mortar fire, as was a man who was trying to help them escape to safety
0:20.8	moments before the photo was taken.
0:23.4	Lindsey Adario is the photographer who took the picture.
0:27.2	She was the featured guest on her podcast four years ago.
0:30.8	Her heartbreaking photo in Ukraine appeared on the front page of the New York Times and
0:36.4	spread across the world. The father of the family learned about the death of his wife and
0:41.9	children when he saw the image on Twitter. learned about the death of his wife and children
0:42.7	when he saw the image on Twitter.
0:45.4	Here's what Lindsay Adario told CBS News
0:48.5	about taking the photo.
0:50.3	I mean, I'm a mother and, you know when I'm working I try to stay very focused I try to keep sort of the camera to my eyes so I don't think too much but of course it was very emotional of all, I had just been sprayed with gravel
1:04.0	from a mortar round that could have killed us very easily.
1:07.4	So I was shaken up and I, when we were told
1:11.0	that we could run across the street by our security advisor. I ran and I saw
1:16.0	uh this family displayed out and I saw these little moon boots and puffy code and and I and
1:22.1	I just thought of my own children of course and I and I just thought of my own children of course and I and I thought you know
1:26.7	it's disrespectful to take a photo but I have to take a photo this is a war crime. I think it's really important that people around the
1:37.7	world see these images and I you know it's really brave of the New York Times to put that image on the front page
1:43.6	it's a difficult image but it is a historically important image historically
1:48.4	important she explained because it not only shows the tragic human toll of the war, but also documents that the Russians are targeting civilians.
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