Lynsey Addario Quotes
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For me, it's more about being there, bearing witness to history, bearing witness to what's happening, what our country, the position our country is taking overseas. I want policy-makers to see the fruits of their decisions, basically, and to try and influence foreign policy.
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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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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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It's very hard to turn your back once you're aware of what's going on, and you're aware of the injustices, and you're aware of the civilian casualties. It's much easier if you have no idea and you've never seen it.
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For me, taking photographs is such a tortured process. I'm always feeling like I'm not getting enough: I'm in the wrong place, the light isn't good, the subject's not comfortable.
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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.
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I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.
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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.
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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.
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Becoming a mother hasn't necessarily changed how I shoot, but it certainly has made me more sensitive, and it certainly makes it much harder for me to photograph dying children.
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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.
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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.
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You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don't open fire on you.
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The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.