Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist She began photographing professionally for the Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina in 1996 In the late 1990s she began freelancing in New York City for the Associated Press where she worked consistently for three years before moving to New Delhi India to cover South Asia for the Chrstian Science Monitor The Boston Globe and Houston Chronicle In 2000 Addario first traveled to Afghanistan to document life and oppression of women living under the Taliban and made three separate trips to the country under Taliban rule before September 11 2001 Since then Addario has covered conflicts humanitarian crises and womens issues in Iraq Libya Lebanon Darfur South Sudan Somalia the Democratic Republic of Congo Yemen Syria and Ukraine In 2015 she wrote a New York Times bestselling memoir Its What I Do