Wallis Annenberg has announced that the Photo Space will not be re-opening. Read her letter of appreciation on the closing of a chapter in Los Angeles.
Ukhia settlement, Bangladesh, 2016: Munni, 8, jumps rope with her friends. They all attend a nearby community school.
Photo by: Lynsey Addario
Lynsey Addario
Photographer
Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist who regularly works for The New York Times, National Geographic and TIME. She began photographing professionally for the Buenos Aires Herald in 1996 with no previous photographic training. In 2000, she traveled to Afghanistan to document life under the Taliban, and has since covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Darfur, South Sudan and Congo. In 2015, American Photo Magazine named Addario one of the five most influential photographers of the past 25 years. She has received the MacArthur Fellowship and the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot award for her series, “Veiled Rebellion: Afghan Women.”
Addario’s recent work includes reportage on Syrian refugees for The New York Times, the ISIS push into Iraq, the civil war in South Sudan and maternal mortality in Sierra Leone for TIME. She recently released a New York Times best-selling memoir, It’s What I Do, which chronicles her personal and professional life as a photojournalist coming of age in the post-9/11 world.
As of March 2016