Unit 10: Digital Photography for a Media Product: Lynsey Addario

lynsey addario

born: 13 November 1973 (43)

norway connecticut USA

Nationality: America USA

what lynsey addario do?

lynsey addario do as a America Photojournalist.

In 2000, she photographed in Afghanistan under Taliban control. She has since covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur, Republic of the Congo, and Haiti.She has covered stories throughout the Middle East and Africa.She has visited Darfur or neighboring Chad at least once a month from August 2004.

She has photographed for The New York Times,The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic.

In Pakistan on May 9, 2009, Addario was involved in an automobile accident while returning to Islamabad from an assignment at a refugee camp. Her collar bone (clavicle) was broken, another journalist was injured, and the driver was killed.

Addario was one of four New York Times journalists who were missing in Libya from March 16–21, 2011. The New York Times reported on March 18, 2011 that Libya had agreed to free her and three colleagues: Anthony Shadid, Stephen Farrell and Tyler Hicks.The Libyan government released the four journalists on March 21, 2011. She reports that she was threatened with death and repeatedly groped during her captivity by the Libyan Army.

The extensive exhibition In Afghanistan^[18] at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway has her photos of Afghan women juxtaposed with Tim Hetherington's photographs from American soldiers in the Korangal Valley.

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