Lynsey Addario

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. Travelling 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.  A MacArthur Fellow, she was a contributor to two Pulitzer Prizes for International Reporting with  The New York Times team, 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. Her numerous accolades also include the President’s Award from the Overseas Press Club, two Emmy nominations, and being inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame. This year, she has also been named as one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2026.

Addario is the author of the  2015 New York Times  bestselling memoir  It’s What I Do, and in 2018 she released her first solo collection of photography, Of Love and War. She is the subject of the feature documentary   Love+War, which has been nominated for four Emmys.

Photo credit: Gareth Cattermole