Lynsey Addario: Portraits of Love and War

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🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist has covered wars and humanitarian crises in 70 countries, including Iraq, Libya & Afghanistan. She has been kidnapped twice and she’s been badly injured on the job, but she is determined to open our eyes to the state of the world and the human condition, no matter the risk. 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

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0:00.0	Lindsey Adairio is a photojournalist who's covered some of the most important news of our time,
0:06.7	but in March of 2011 she became the news.
0:11.6	And developing now some new information and disturbing information just into us the New York Times now
0:16.4	says that four of its journalists reporting on the conflict in Libya have gone
0:20.9	missing. Editors at the New York Times
0:23.4	say they were last in touch with their journalist.
0:26.2	Adario and her colleagues were taken and held captive
0:29.5	by Moamar Gaddafi's forces.
0:32.0	They were severely beaten and told they be killed. Their driver was
0:36.4	killed. But after six days in harrowing captivity, they were released and Lindsay Adairia went right on putting herself back in the way
0:46.3	of extreme danger to capture images that open our eyes to the realities of the world
0:52.1	even when we'd sometimes rather look away.
0:56.2	By her own count, she's taken pictures in over 70 countries.
1:01.0	If there is a war or a humanitarian crisis,
1:04.0	Lindsay Adario is there to bear witness,
1:07.0	whether in Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Congo, Burma,
1:11.0	Haiti, Syria.
1:13.0	Her photos have earned her a MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize.
1:18.4	What makes a good photo?
1:19.4	I think a good photo is one that makes you stop in your tracks and look at it twice or look at it for a long time.
1:27.6	It should have emotion or provoke emotion.
1:31.9	It should, for for me have a complex composition, something that sort of draws you in and you
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