Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer Lynsey Addario reflects on surviving front-line abductions, documenting conflict in the age of social media, and switching between firefights and family life.
Throughout my years in journalism, I’ve had the greatest respect for war correspondents and photographers: those who take grave personal risks, year after year, to tell other people’s stories. In a National Geographic documentary currently streaming on Hulu and Disney+, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Lynsey Addario lets us into that world, which has been her life’s work for three decades.
Love+War follows Addario on assignment in Ukraine and through other conflicts that shaped her as both a storyteller and a person, from Iraq and Afghanistan to Libya and Sudan. But it also tracks her at home, showing how she adjusts from a high-adrenaline professional environment to school runs and bath times with her sons, answering their questions about why she has to go away and whether her work is dangerous.
Addario’s life today seems far removed from her Connecticut upbringing as the daughter of hairdressers. And yet she says that very childhood is what prepared her to walk into any situation and connect with people — from US soldiers to refugees and civilians living through extreme times.
Editor-at-Large Mishal Husain for Bloomberg News
Throughout my years in journalism, I’ve had the greatest respect for war correspondents and photographers: those who take grave personal risks, year after year, to tell other people’s stories. In a National Geographic documentary currently streaming on Hulu and Disney+, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Lynsey Addario lets us into that world, which has been her life’s work for three decades.
Love+War follows Addario on assignment in Ukraine and through other conflicts that shaped her as both a storyteller and a person, from Iraq and Afghanistan to Libya and Sudan. But it also tracks her at home, showing how she adjusts from a high-adrenaline professional environment to school runs and bath times with her sons, answering their questions about why she has to go away and whether her work is dangerous.
Addario’s life today seems far removed from her Connecticut upbringing as the daughter of hairdressers. And yet she says that very childhood is what prepared her to walk into any situation and connect with people — from US soldiers to refugees and civilians living through extreme times.
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