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Lynsey Addario is a photojournalist based in New Delhi, India, where she photographs for The New York Times and National Geographic, among other publications.
Lynsey began photographing professionally in 1996—with no professional photographic training or studies--and started photographing conflict and humanitarian issues in 2000, when she traveled to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to document life and oppression under the Taliban. She has since covered conflicts in Afghanistan for the New York Times Magazine, in Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, and Congo for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and Time. She also covers feature stories throughout the Middle East and Africa.
Lynsey’s recent bodies of work include: ‘Karzai in his Labyrinth’ for The New York Times Magazine, ‘Talibanistan’, in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province and the tribal areas for The NYT Magazine, Battle Company and the War in Afghanistan for The NYT Magazine, ‘Bhutan’s experiment with Democracy’ for National Geographic Magazine, and a project on female victims of sexual violence in Congo, sponsored by the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College in Chicago.
She is currently working on a story in Afghanistan for National Geographic Magazine.
Lynsey has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship as well as the Pulitzer Prize in 2009, when her photographs in ‘Talibanistan’, Sept 7, 2008, were part of the New York Times team prize for International Reporting. Addario won the Getty Images Grant for Editorial photography in 2008 for her work in Darfur, where she has been photographing for six consecutive years. In 2008, Addario was named a Fellow at the Columbia College of Women in the Arts in Chicago to document a photo essay and accompanying interviews with victims of sexual assault in the Democratic Republic of Congo, she was the recipient of the Fuji Award in 2005 at Visa pour L’Image for a photo essay on injured American soldiers in Balad, Iraq, The ICP Infinity Award in 2002 by the International Center of Photography, the Soros Foundation 2004, Moving Walls exhibit featuring work her in Darfur, and was selected as one of the 12 participants in the in World Press Photo’s 11th Joop Swart Masterclass. Lynsey has also earned awards in the Pictures of the Year International contest, has been featured in the American Photography competition and Communication Arts for several consecutive years.She received a BA at the university of Wisconsin-Madison, where she graduated with Honors, and speaks English, Spanish, and Italian.
Lynsey began photographing professionally in 1996—with no professional photographic training or studies--and started photographing conflict and humanitarian issues in 2000, when she traveled to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to document life and oppression under the Taliban. She has since covered conflicts in Afghanistan for the New York Times Magazine, in Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, and Congo for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and Time. She also covers feature stories throughout the Middle East and Africa.
Lynsey’s recent bodies of work include: ‘Karzai in his Labyrinth’ for The New York Times Magazine, ‘Talibanistan’, in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province and the tribal areas for The NYT Magazine, Battle Company and the War in Afghanistan for The NYT Magazine, ‘Bhutan’s experiment with Democracy’ for National Geographic Magazine, and a project on female victims of sexual violence in Congo, sponsored by the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College in Chicago.
She is currently working on a story in Afghanistan for National Geographic Magazine.
Lynsey has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship as well as the Pulitzer Prize in 2009, when her photographs in ‘Talibanistan’, Sept 7, 2008, were part of the New York Times team prize for International Reporting. Addario won the Getty Images Grant for Editorial photography in 2008 for her work in Darfur, where she has been photographing for six consecutive years. In 2008, Addario was named a Fellow at the Columbia College of Women in the Arts in Chicago to document a photo essay and accompanying interviews with victims of sexual assault in the Democratic Republic of Congo, she was the recipient of the Fuji Award in 2005 at Visa pour L’Image for a photo essay on injured American soldiers in Balad, Iraq, The ICP Infinity Award in 2002 by the International Center of Photography, the Soros Foundation 2004, Moving Walls exhibit featuring work her in Darfur, and was selected as one of the 12 participants in the in World Press Photo’s 11th Joop Swart Masterclass. Lynsey has also earned awards in the Pictures of the Year International contest, has been featured in the American Photography competition and Communication Arts for several consecutive years.She received a BA at the university of Wisconsin-Madison, where she graduated with Honors, and speaks English, Spanish, and Italian.
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