Lynsey Addario

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Lynsey Addario (born November 13, 1973 in Norwalk , Connecticut ) is an American photojournalist. Since 1996 she has worked for the Associated Press , the New York Times and the National Geographic Magazine, among others . In her pictures Lynsey Addario not only shows the consequences of war and displacement in countries like Afghanistan , Iraq or Darfur , but also directs attention to the situation of women and children, human rights and social issues in other countries. She was seriously injured in a car accident in 2009 and was abducted twice. In 2009 she received the Pulitzer Prize as a member of a team for the New York Times and was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship that same year .

youth

As the youngest of four daughters of an Italian-American hairdresser couple, Lynsey Addario experienced a sheltered childhood in a colorful bohemian family in Norwalk , Connecticut . When she was eight years old, her father left the family to live with a man. Lynsey Addario attended Staples High School in Westport (Connecticut) until 1991 and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995 with honors in international relations .

Professional background

Lynsey Addario got her first camera from her father at the age of 13. She first photographed flowers, landscapes and cemeteries in black and white. She did not have any photographic training in her youth.

In 1996 she started professional photography at the Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina . She was lucky when her picture of Madonna made it onto the front page of the newspaper. Addario's fee was $ 10. During this time she visited an exhibition with pictures by Sebastião Salgado and there she made the decision to devote herself entirely to photojournalism and documentary photography:

"At that moment I realized what I wanted: to use photos to tell the stories of people, to do justice to their humanity as Salgado did, and to arouse the same compassion in the viewer that I felt at the moment they were taken."

- Lynsey Addario

In 1997 Lynsey Addario returned to New York. A three-year period followed, working as a freelance photographer for the Associated Press and New York newspapers and learning from her colleagues. She accepted commissioned work, but at the same time set her own project goals and concentrated on Cuba : in 1997 she produced a series of photo essays on the influence of capitalism on the young generation, in 1998 she documented the papal visit and then annually until 2002 life under the last communist regime.

In January 2000, Lynsey Addario moved her base to New Delhi for eight months , from where she traveled to India, Afghanistan , Pakistan and Nepal for the Associated Press and the Boston Globe . One focus of her work here was on human rights , social issues and the situation of women. In India she took photos in the big cities, but also in remote villages.

In April 2000, she set out for Afghanistan for the first time from Pakistan via the Khyber Pass . With the help of her Afghan companions, she was able to take a look behind the scenes of the country under the rule of the Taliban : She took photos in the women's hospital in the ruins of Kabul and in the houses of strictly conservative families. But she couldn't find any buyers for her pictures in the USA, Afghanistan was considered too exotic at the time.

In April 2001, Addario went to Mexico City to do projects for the New York Times on immigration, human rights and social issues. Again and again she flew to other countries to take photos there.

With the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , Afghanistan became the focus of global interest. Lynsey Addario first took photos in Peshawar in neighboring Pakistan and showed what life was like for women. Lynsey Addario now worked for major photo agencies, the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine . One of her priorities after the fall of the Taliban regime was the education of women.

In January 2003 she moved to Istanbul to carry out projects in the Middle East . When she was traveling with Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, the USA started the Iraq war . Lynsey Addario worked as an embedded journalist , so she was assigned to the US troops as a civil war correspondent. For almost two years she photographed the war and its aftermath for the New York Times . In April 2004 she was kidnapped by rebels in Iraq with a colleague, her driver and a local companion, but were then released. She was one of the few photographers who were able to report regularly on the war between 2004 and 2009.

From 2004 onwards, the conflict in Darfur was also a focus of Lynsey Addario. She involved Sudanese refugee camps in Chad in this work and photographed both displaced persons and rebel groups in the region. Here, too, she was one of the few photographers who were able to report regularly on the war between 2004 and 2009.

On behalf of the New York Times , Lynsey Addario photographed women in Saudi Arabia in the following years , in 2005 the social and political situation in Iraq and the war events in Lebanon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo . She also completed a series on children in different African countries for the New York Times and a paper for National Geographic Magazine .

Seven-year-old Khalid in a US military base in Afghanistan, 2007.
Lynsey Addario , 2007
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In 2007, as an embedded journalist , she accompanied an American military unit in the embattled Korenga Valley near the Afghan-Pakistani border, one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan. Lynsey Addario wanted to find out "why so many Afghan civilians were killed even though the Americans used the most modern and allegedly extremely precise weapons."

On May 9, 2009, when Lynsey Addario was returning to Islamabad from a photo assignment in a refugee camp with her colleague Teru Kuwayama and the Pakistani driver Raza Khan , a car accident occurred: the driver was killed, Addario's collarbone was broken, and her colleague was injured .

After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti , Lynsey Addario took photos of an orphanage home to children who were brought there by their parents because they were too poor to care for them. She also took pictures of a birth in a reception center and documented the effects of the earthquake on the youngest victims with her work.

Together with her colleagues Anthony Shadid , Stephen Farrell and Tayler Hicks , Lynsey Addario came under the control of the Libyan army on March 16, 2011 , which the journalists regarded as enemies. The journalists were beaten and threatened with death, and Lynsey Addario was also sexually harassed, but not raped. The New York Times opened negotiations that led to his release on March 21, 2011.

Erez crossing, 2014

In November 2011, Lynsey Addario filed an official complaint with the Israeli government through the New York Times office in Jerusalem : At the Erez crossing on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip , Lynsey Addario, who had alerted the border guards to her pregnancy, was had been forced to go through the scanner three times, had been subjected to a body search and had been insulted. The Israel Defense Ministry issued an official apology in response to the complaint.

family

Lynsey Addario has been married to Paul de Bendern, a former international office manager for Reuters , since 2009 . The couple live in London, their son Lukas was born in 2011.

Appreciation

Lynsey Addario is about capturing the truth in her photos and documenting the hardships that many people face. She wants to get people to “think and open their minds” so that they can decide for themselves whether they approve of war operations or not. By showing the unexpected in her pictures, Lynsey Addario hopes to “refute stereotypes or misconceptions”. Sometimes, according to Christian Mayer in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, they tend to "portray things a little more beautifully than they are."

Trivia

Steven Spielberg announced in 2016 that he would film the life of Lynsey Addario with Jennifer Lawrence in the lead role.

Awards (selection)

Group exhibitions

Works

  • Lynsey Addario, Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Medea Benjamin: Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation. Perceval Press, 2003, l ISBN 978-0972143691 (English).
  • Leslie Thomas (Ed.): Darfur Darfur , DK Melcher Media, 2008, ISBN 978-1595910455 (English; photos by Lynsey Addario).
  • Where is Heaven on Earth ?: National Geographic photographers reveal their personal paradise. National Geographic Germany, 2009, ISBN 978-3866901223 (English original title: Visions of Paradise).
  • Every moment is eternity. As a photojournalist in the crisis areas of the world. Econ Verlag Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-430-20212-1 . (Original edition in English: It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War. Penguin Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1594205378 ).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Christian Mayer: In the field of fire. The American war photographer Lynsey Addario keeps getting caught between the fronts. Why can't she leave it? In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 48, 27./28. February 2016, p. 47; Online article accessed April 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e war reporter Lynsey Addario: The last mission - Sunday - World - Tagesspiegel. In: tagesspiegel.de . March 14, 2016, accessed April 4, 2016 .
  3. ^ A b National Press Photographers Association: Photojournalist Lynsey Addario Wins $ 500,000 MacArthur Fellowship. ( Memento of September 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), http://www.nppa.org , September 22, 2009, accessed April 2, 2016; English.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Lynsey Addario - CongoWomen. In: congowomen.org. September 11, 2001, accessed April 3, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Lynsey Addario: Every moment is eternity. As a photojournalist in the crisis areas of the world. Econ Verlag Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-430-20212-1 , p. 46.
  6. ↑ Lynsey Addario: Every moment is eternity. As a photojournalist in the crisis areas of the world. Econ Verlag Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-430-20212-1 , pp. 100-103.
  7. ↑ Lynsey Addario: Every moment is eternity. As a photojournalist in the crisis areas of the world. Econ Verlag Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-430-20212-1 , pp. 160-174.
  8. ↑ Lynsey Addario: Every moment is eternity. As a photojournalist in the crisis areas of the world. Econ Verlag Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-430-20212-1 , p. 198.
  9. ↑ Jessamy Calkin: War photographer Lynsey Addario on tragedy, pregnancy in warzones and being played by Jennifer Lawrence. telegraph.co.uk, March 21, 2015, accessed April 27, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Lynsey Addario: Every moment is eternity. As a photojournalist in the crisis areas of the world. Econ Verlag Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-430-20212-1 , p. 219.
  11. ^ On Assignment: Taking Time Out to Heal. In: lens.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved April 3, 2016 .
  12. ^ A b Even Orphanages Spawn Orphans in Haiti. In: lens.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved April 3, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Lynsey Addario: Every moment is eternity. As a photojournalist in the crisis areas of the world. Econ Verlag Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-430-20212-1 , p. 291.
  14. ↑ Lynsey Addario: Every moment is eternity. As a photojournalist in the crisis areas of the world. Econ Verlag Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-430-20212-1 , p. 314.
  15. ↑ Lynsey Addario: Every moment is eternity. As a photojournalist in the crisis areas of the world. Econ Verlag Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-430-20212-1 , p. 338.
  16. ^ Israel apologizes to American journalist for overly intrusive search. In: Haaretz.com. June 14, 2015, accessed April 3, 2016 .
  17. ↑ http://archive.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2011/11/28/israel_apologizes_for_treatment_of_nyt_journalist/
  18. ↑ Lynsey Addario: Every moment is eternity. As a photojournalist in the crisis areas of the world. Econ Verlag Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-430-20212-1 , p. 351.
  19. ↑ Lynsey Addario: Every moment is eternity. As a photojournalist in the crisis areas of the world. Econ Verlag Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-430-20212-1 , p. 177.
  20. ↑ Lynsey Addario: Every moment is eternity. As a photojournalist in the crisis areas of the world. Econ Verlag Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-430-20212-1 , p. 103.
  21. ↑ Lynsey Addario: Every moment is eternity. As a photojournalist in the crisis areas of the world. Econ Verlag Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-430-20212-1 , p. 201.
  22. ↑ A life on the war front Even when she was eight months pregnant, she traveled to Gaza: A conversation with the war photographer Lynsey Addario about selfishness, life and death. , Interview with Lynsey Addario, www.tagesanzeiger.ch, March 4, 2016, accessed on July 12, 2019.
  23. ↑ Congo Women. In: congowomen.org. Retrieved April 3, 2016 .
  24. ↑ In Afghanistan - Nobel Peace Center. In: nobelpeacecenter.org. Retrieved April 3, 2016 .
  25. ^ National Geographic's Women of Vision. In: wovexhibition.org. Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Addario, Lynsey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photojournalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Norwalk , Connecticut , USA