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Lynsey Addario Keeps Going Back to Photograph War

Lynsey Addario Keeps Going Back to Photograph War

The Mishal Husain Show vor 10 Monaten

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Lynsey Addario’s life work means taking great risks to tell
other people’s stories. She is a Pulitzer Prize winning war
photographer who has been abducted twice while documenting
conflicts from Afghanistan to Ukraine and Sudan.

There aren’t many women in her field. In a new National
Geographic documentary called “Love+War,” currently streaming on
Disney+, she lets us into that world, one she’s made her
profession for three decades. Addario shows how she adjusts from
a work environment of grave danger and high-adrenaline to being a
mother making the school run and spending time with her sons.

In this conversation, she tells Mishal Husain, why she believes
her job is to “bear witness” and how she came to it. She
remembers the first time she used a camera and shares how her
childhood prepared her to walk into any situation and connect
with anyone, from soldiers to refugees and civilians living
through extreme times.

This interview contains descriptions of abduction, violence and
sexual assault which some listeners/viewers may find
distressing.

02:27 - Love+War

03:34 - The turning point

06:00 - Learning about the risks

07:00 “I don’t want to do this for a living”

09:19 - Being held in Fallujah

11:20 - On embed in Afghanistan

14:31 - Operation Rock Avalanche

15:43 - Dealing with the emotion

16:50 - The daughter of hairdressers in Connecticut

17:44 - Getting her first camera

19:30 - Planning a “shoot-list”

21:51 - Russian strike on Ukraine

17:30 - Being held hostage in Libya

31:02 - Survivor’s guilt

33:30 Life at home

36:30 - Social media and fake images

40:18 - Switching off

Watch this podcast here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe4PRejZgr0Ns_wjGlmjlPz0cded0nTYS

You can find the written version of this interview with Mishal’s
notes on Bloomberg Weekend:
https://www.bloomberg.com/latest/weekend-interview

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