Lynsey Addario Quotes
Top 39 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lynsey Addario
Lynsey Addario Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.
The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist.
I try not to get caught up in how our society is so inundated with images, and stay very focused on the work that I'm doing.
I knew that my interest lied in international stories. I was interested in how women were living under the Taliban, for example.
I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.
Photography has shaped the way I look at the world; it has taught me to look beyond myself and capture the world outside.
The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.
I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.
I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.
He spoke Spanish, English, Italian, and just enough of every other language to be able to charm women around the world.
Before I gave birth to Lukas, I hadn't truly understood that painful, consuming, I-will-do-anything-to-save-this-human-being kind of love.
It seems like, yeah, of course - I always think my work is important, or I wouldn't risk my life for it.
I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.
I became fascinated by the notion of dispelling stereotypes or misconceptions through photography, of presenting the counterintuitive.
I started freelancing for the Associated Press. I had a great mentor there who sort of taught me everything.
I come from a big family of hairdressers; they didn't read newspapers. I would say, 'I'm off to Afghanistan ... ' and they would say, 'Have fun!'
Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money.
For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.
I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.
You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way.