“I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq - I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 - that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there.”

American photojournalist

Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist known for her reporting on conflict and human rights. Her work has often centered on the lives of women in traditional societies. She has built a career covering places and situations shaped by war and inequality, with particular attention to how these forces affect women. In 2022, she received the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Courage in Journalism Award.