Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario was born in 1973, and is an American photojournalist based in London. She works regularly for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and National Geographic, among others.

Lynsey began photographing professionally in 1996, and started photographing conflict in 2000, when she traveled to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to document life and oppression under the Taliban. She has since covered the war in Afghanistan for the New York Times Magazine, and the wars in Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, and Congo for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and Time.

Lynsey has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting as part of the New York Times team covering the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan for the magazine cover article Talibanistan, published Sept. 7, 2008.