Lynsey Addario
The Saturation of War
Lynsey Addario discusses her work photographing conflict over the past decade, and the challenges of making compelling images from ongoing wars when our society is saturated by by conflict photography.
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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…
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WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY presents images from both the military and civilian point of view including the advent of war, the fight itself and remembrance.
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War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath
WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY presents images from both the military and civilian point of view including the advent of war, the fight itself and remembrance.
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Lynsey Addario
An American photojournalist based in London, Lynsey Addario photographs for The New York Times, National Geographic and Time Magazine.