Traveling and Capturing with a Purpose - Lynsey Addario
Addario's website is dark, mimicking the feelings in her images.
"It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War"
Lynsey Addario was just finding her way as a photographer when September 11th changed the world. One of the few photojournalists with experience in Afghanistan, she gets the call to return and cover the American invasion. Photography becomes a way for her to travel with a purpose - a singular ambition that shapes and drives her.
“A remarkable journalistic achievement… that crystalizes the last 10 years of global war and strife while candidly portraying the intimate life of a female photojournalist. Told with unflinching candor [Addario] brings an incredible sense of humanity to all the battlefields of her life. A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir that is as inspiring as it is horrific.”—Kirkus (starred review)
Her images offer captions so you're able to get a better understanding of what’s happening. War is confusing and there is a lot going on that we don’t know so a little background helps develop each image.
‘Hanaa takes a nap under a mosquito net in her tent in the informal tented settlement she lives in with her family after a long morning picking cucumbers from dawn with other Syrian refugees,in the Bekaa Valley, between the city of Zahle and Baalbak, in Lebanon, August 1, 2015. Hanaa and her family fled Syria in 2011 at the beginning of the Syrian civil war, and moved to this settlement two years ago, along with other Syrian refugees from Hasaka and the surrounding areas. Hanaa and other children in the settlement work for up to ten hours a day in agricultural lands owned by Lebanese in the area, and earn the equivalent of $5. per day.’
Addario captures all aspects of the war; the people fighting and the people and areas affected by war. Many are affected whether directly or indirectly and Addario offers views in all directions.
Her images are raw and real; she doesn't try to hide anything. Although travel and war images are her main focus, she started out shooting street photography.
"Transsexual Prostitutes New York" she gets up close and personal with her subjects.
"Miss India Beauty Pageant 2001"
More thoughts re: how she speaks to your own work, if not process, then techniques.
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