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For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.
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When I first started out, I really felt like, 'I'm a journalist; I will be respected as a neutral observer.' And I don't feel like that holds true anymore. I don't think people respect journalists the same way they once did.
Lynsey Addario
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I remember the moment in which we were taken hostage in Libya, and we were asked to lie face down on the ground, and they started putting our arms behind our backs and started tying us up. And we were each begging for our lives because they were deciding whether to execute us, and they had guns to our heads.
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Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money.
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I would never think of myself as a role model.
Lynsey Addario -
The more I photographed Muslim women, the more I was able to metaphorically strip away the burqas and hijabs, and start chipping away at the profound misconceptions that existed in other parts of the world about these women and their culture.
Lynsey Addario -
I didn't want my gender to determine whether or not I could cover breaking news.
Lynsey Addario -
I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.
Lynsey Addario
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You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way.
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I'm not the kind of person to sit and dwell for ages on something that happened. I go through something, I experience it, I try to learn from it, and I move forward.
Lynsey Addario -
It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn't need to figure out cultural references or what hijab I needed to wear to cover my hair.
Lynsey Addario -
I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university.
Lynsey Addario -
I try not to get caught up in how our society is so inundated with images, and stay very focused on the work that I'm doing.
Lynsey Addario -
Obviously I am a photographer and I believe in my medium: I do think that powerful photographs can force change. It doesn't take long to look and be engaged in a strong image whereas, with a story, you have to actually sit down and pause and be involved in it.
Lynsey Addario
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Since Sept. 11, many of the wars of our generation are in the Muslim world. So as a woman, I have access to 50 percent of the population that my male colleagues don't.
Lynsey Addario -
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 -
As a Western woman in the Middle East, I am often put in a different category. I am sort of like the third sex. I am not treated like a man. I am not treated like a woman. I am just treated like a journalist. That is usually really helpful.
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The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist.
Lynsey Addario -
I was lucky because I had parents who have enabled me to do whatever I was passionate about and never held my siblings and me back from anything. But I think a lot of people don't have that experience.
Lynsey Addario -
I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.
Lynsey Addario
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I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.
Lynsey Addario -
With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.
Lynsey Addario -
In so many countries, Western journalists are viewed simply as dollar signs. We're ransom objects.
Lynsey Addario -
I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.
Lynsey Addario