Lynsey Addario Quotes

• People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships.

  Lynsey Addario

  Photography, Thinking, People

  "Lynsey Addario: ‘It’s What I Do’". lens.blogs.nytimes.com. March 30, 2011.

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• I hope that my work helps people - that's the thing that drives me and keeps me going.

  Lynsey Addario

  People, Helping

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• There are ways to minimize the risk if you are a woman working in the Middle East: You can dress modestly, wear the hijab, cover your head, always travel with a man.

  Lynsey Addario

  Men, Over You, Risk

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions.

  Lynsey Addario

  Goal, Reader, Asks

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• I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people's most intimate moments. I discovered the privilege of seeing life in all its complexity, the thrill of learning something new every day. When I was behind a camera, it was the only place in the world I wanted to be.

  Lynsey Addario

  Photography, Intimate Moments, Learning Something New

  Lynsey Addario (2015). “It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War”, p.19, Penguin

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• Journalists dedicate their lives to covering war - they make many personal sacrifices, and it's not something that's gender-based. In a place like Libya where there's heavy fighting, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman.

  Lynsey Addario

  War, Fighting, Sacrifice

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I just pray. And 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.

  Lynsey Addario

  Religious, Catholic, Church

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'm incredibly focused. I think it's a blessing and a curse. I'm so driven that nothing else can stand in my way. For many years, I didn't have a personal life.

  Lynsey Addario

  Blessing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.

  Lynsey Addario

  Men, Photograph, Afghanistan

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I was assigned a Taliban "minder" who followed me everywhere. But he couldn't follow me into homes where there were women, so I took photos inside people's homes.

  Lynsey Addario

  Home, People, Follow Me

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When I read about women living under the Taliban, I really wanted to travel there and see for myself: Is it that bad? What is the situation? I remember the night before I left for my trip, I called my mom and said, "I'm going to Afghanistan tomorrow."

  Lynsey Addario

  Mom, Night, Tomorrow

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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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.

  Lynsey Addario

  Editors, Complaining, Pakistan

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I've worked for over 11 years in the Muslim world, and the one thing that I feel like I've learned - who's to say if it's true or not true, it's just my experience - is that men don't like to see really strong, aggressive women in that area of the world.

  Lynsey Addario

  Strong, Men, Years

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Mortars and artillery don't discriminate against gender.

  Lynsey Addario

  Gender, Artillery, Mortar

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive of travel and doing whatever I thought I needed to do.

  Lynsey Addario

  Parent, Supportive, World

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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