Lynsey Addario on Leaving the Comfort Zone

“It’s very easy for people to live in their own world … and sort of be very comfortable and I like to make people feel uncomfortable every so often, and realize what they have.” —Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario has seen her work affect foreign policy and has expressed the hope that her photographs make people stop whatever they’re doing, just for a moment, and think. Addario has worked across the globe, covering issues surrounding war. Much of her work from countries like Afghanistan is about women and women’s issues. She said that it is a “quest for [her] to cover women living under the constraints of a broken country or a broken state.” Addario has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, a

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