How I Became a Photojournalist: A Chat with Lynsey Addario

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🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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w It's a new year, which means more episodes of Women Who Travel are coming your way. In 2020, we're kicking things off with a new monthly series called "HoI Became...," where we'll sit down with master travelers who spend most of their lives on the road doing things those of us at our desks on a daily basis never thought possible. First up? Women Who Travel advisory board member, award-winning photojournalist, and author Lynsey Addario. We chat with her about picking up her first camera, taking less than stellar shots on her tour of South America in her early twenties, and spending her decades-long career photographing women. Delving deeper, we talk about how travel can heal the trauma of photographing war, death, and more—and how it takes years to learn to say "no" to risk.

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0:18.0	Happy New Year. This is Women Who Travel, a podcast by Condi Nass Traveler.
0:22.6	I'm Lale Aricoglu, and with me, as always, is my co-host Meredith Carey.
0:26.7	We're back.
0:28.0	We are.
0:29.0	And we are thrilled to be back in the studio after our six-week break.
0:32.4	We hope you didn't miss us too much.
0:33.9	Or actually, we hope you missed us very much much and you've been counting down the days.
0:41.0	And we're kicking off 2020 with a really exciting lineup.
0:46.0	For our first episode of the year, we're talking to photojournalist and women who travel advisory board member, Lindsay Adario.
0:48.7	The Pulitzer Prize winning photographer has spent her career traveling to some of the
0:52.0	world's most demanding places, creating photographs that capture not only the brutality of war, but the beauty of the people living under it,
0:59.0	many of whom are women. Her recent book of Love and War captures the stories of those women
1:04.0	and seeks to shine a light on the issues they continue to face around the world.
1:08.0	Thank you for joining us, Lindsay.
1:09.0	My pleasure. So we kind of just want to kick it off
1:13.2	with, tell us a little bit about what your life is like right now. You're heading to JFK pretty much
1:19.2	right after this, so travel's not stopping. Yeah, no. Most of my year is spent on the road. I'd say
1:27.1	probably anywhere from 15 to 20 days a month. I'm traveling somewhere, whether it's from London to somewhere in Africa or the Middle East or Afghanistan or in the U.S. So it really, I don't exclusively cover war. I cover also stories, humanitarian stories and stories about women,
1:47.8	and stories really that have sort of justice or humanity that has a central point.
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