I’m tortured. So I’m not really a proud person. I’m always conflicted about what I’m not doing. I feel privileged that I was able to be there on the front lines of Afghanistan and Iraq. It means a lot to me that I was there because I feel like it was at a very important time in history.
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Lynsey Addario
Photojournalist and war photographer; Pulitzer Prize winner, 2009
United States · b. 1973
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American photojournalist who has covered conflict and humanitarian crises in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Darfur, Congo, Syria and Ukraine for The New York Times, Time and National Geographic. She was part of the team awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and was kidnapped twice while working.
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