- Thu April 8, 2027 at 8:00 pm
Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist who has been covering conflict, humanitarian crises, and women’s issues across the Middle East and Africa on assignment for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and National Geographic for more than two decades. Since September 11, 2001, Addario has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Darfur, South Sudan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen, Syria, and the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Twice kidnapped, she has risked her life to document the stark realities of war. Traveling to the most dangerous and remote corners of the world, Addario creates visual testimony through her photographs—not only of war and injustice, but also of humanity, dignity, and resilience.
In 2015, American Photo magazine named Addario one of the five most influential photographers of the previous 25 years, saying she changed the way we see the world’s conflicts.
A MacArthur Fellow, Addario was a contributor to two Pulitzer Prizes for Overseas Reporting with The New York Timesteam—for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009 and the war in Ukraine in 2023. She was a Pulitzer finalist for Feature Photography in 2025 and a finalist in Breaking News Photography from Ukraine in 2023. She has received numerous honors, including the President’s Award from the Overseas Press Club and two Emmy nominations, and was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame.
Addario is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir It’s What I Do, published in 2015, which chronicles her personal and professional life as a photojournalist coming of age in the post-9/11 world. In 2018, she released her first solo collection of photography, Of Love and War. Her life and work are the subject of the feature documentary Love+War.