She documents war’s darkest truths — then returns home to her family
Apple News In Conversation
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🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario has spent the past two decades on the front lines of many of the world’s defining conflicts and humanitarian crises — from Iraq and Afghanistan to the Arab Spring, the Libyan civil war, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A new documentary from National Geographic, Love+War, explores not only her extraordinary career in conflict zones but also her life at home in London with her husband and their two young sons. Addario sat down with Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu to talk about her high-risk work, motherhood, and what the film reveals about the complexity of both.
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| 0:00.0 | This is In Conversation from Apple News. I'm Shemitabasu. Today, inside the life of one of the world's leading war photographers. chances are if you've looked at the front page of any newspaper over the past two decades |
| 0:26.7 | and seen images of war, conflict, and uprisings from around the world, you have most likely |
| 0:32.5 | seen a Lindsay Adario photo. |
| 0:34.8 | She's documented everything from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Arab Spring and Libyan Civil War to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:43.9 | I'm constantly feeling for the people I cover. I'm constantly putting myself in their shoes. |
| 0:50.9 | She's been awarded the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship for her work. |
| 0:55.0 | And now a new National Geographic documentary film called Love and War looks not only at her extraordinary career, but also at her life at home in London with her husband and their two young sons. |
| 1:07.5 | I became a parent after I had been kidnapped twice. I had been thrown out of a car on a |
| 1:12.7 | highway in Pakistan. I had been in a Taliban ambush, an ambush by Iraqi insurgents. I mean, |
| 1:19.3 | the list goes on and on. When I sat down with Lindsay, we talked about the dangerous work of |
| 1:24.7 | photographing the realities of conflict zones and the difficult work |
| 1:28.6 | of parenting. |
| 1:29.7 | And what she hopes this documentary captures about the complexity of both. |
| 1:36.0 | I have been doing this for so long and usually I am the one asking people to open up their |
| 1:42.3 | lives to me and I go in and I spend hours at a time and |
| 1:46.8 | also documenting like some of the most intimate moments and vulnerable moments that people have. |
| 1:53.6 | And I felt like we're in a time right now where journalism is really under attack. |
| 2:00.6 | You know, first of all, I think that people |
| 2:02.7 | don't understand what it is we do, and especially as frontline photographers and, and journalists. |
| 2:10.0 | And I also made a decision to just be completely transparent and vulnerable and open because |
| 2:17.1 | I know what I ask of my subjects. And I did not |
| 2:21.0 | think it would be helpful if I tried to paint a sort of pretty perfect picture because that's not |
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