Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario was born on November 13, 1973 in Norwalk, Connecticut. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1995. She began photographing professionally in 1996 at at the Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina, and then began freelancing for the Associated Press, with Cuba as a focus. In 2000, she photographed in Afghanistan under Taliban control. She has since covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur, the Congo, and Haiti. She has photographed for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic. In 2015 her title It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War made The New York Times Best Seller List.