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PHOTOGRAPHER · BORN 1973 · UNITED STATES

Lynsey Addario

Conflict and humanitarian reportage focused on women's lives.

Born
1973
Country
United States
Field
Photographer
Lynsey Addario
Portrait: Cmichel67, CC BY-SA 4.0

KNOWN FOR

  1. 2015It's What I Do (memoir)
  2. 2018Of Love & War

WHY THEY MATTER

Part of the New York Times team awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting; MacArthur Fellow.

THE LIFE

Addario has photographed conflict and humanitarian crises in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Darfur. She has focused especially on the lives of women in war. She was part of the New York Times team that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 and was named a MacArthur Fellow the same year. Her memoir It's What I Do describes her career, including her kidnapping in Libya.

Source: Wikipedia

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Tracey Moffatt

Staged photographs and films on Indigenous Australian history and memory.

Something More, 1989Source: Wikipedia

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born 1972 · South Africa · Photographer

Zanele Muholi

Black-and-white portraits and self-portraits of Black LGBTQIA+ South Africans.

Faces and Phases, 2006Source: Wikipedia