Feel Quotes

I got rejected from journalism school!

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Got School Journalism

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Seen Seem Rarely

I'm a very open person, very self-deprecating. I accept my flaws.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Very Person Open

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: You Think I Think

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: More Had Years

It seems like, yeah, of course - I always think my work is important, or I wouldn't risk my life for it.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Work Like Think

For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Who Know World

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.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: War Like Think

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.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Me More How

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.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Our World Many

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.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Good Me Like

My strength is looking for composition and light, and I think those things come in the quieter times of war or photographing people affected on the margins of war - civilians, refugees; that is where I really excel.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: War Strength People

Family is such a fundamental part of Islam, and women run the family. I had to force myself not to impose my own definition of political and social freedom on women in Islam, and approach each story objectively.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Women Family Freedom

My job is to take the pictures, communicate a message, to bring those images to the greater public through whatever publication I'm working for. My job is really to be a messenger, and that's what I've been doing.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Really Been Those

I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Home Just Been

Photography of any living being, according to Taliban rule, was illegal. So when I went to Afghanistan, immediately I was worried about photographing people. But it was what I wanted: to show what life was like under the Taliban, specifically for women.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Women People Like

Journalists dedicate their lives to covering war - they make many personal sacrifices, and it's not something that's gender-based. In a place like Libya where there's heavy fighting, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: War You Like

Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?'

Lynsey Addario

Tags: War You People

By the time the United States went to war with Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, I had made three trips to the country. I covered the fall of the Taliban in Kandahar and have been returning routinely for the past 14 years.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Time War Had

I interviewed dozens and dozens of African women who had endured more hardship and trauma than most Westerners even read about, and they ploughed on. I often openly cried during interviews, unable to process this violence and hatred towards women I was witnessing.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Women About Who

Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Work You Who

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.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: History Me About

I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don't go directly to the front line.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Work War Out

To me, it's so much about doing your homework, going into a situation, getting to know the subject, making them feel comfortable, getting intimate access, getting access to all different aspects of people's lives so that I am essentially telling an entire story and not just a single image.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: People Me About

I remember the moment in which we were taken hostage in Libya, and we were asked to lie face down on the ground, and they started putting our arms behind our backs and started tying us up. And we were each begging for our lives because they were deciding whether to execute us, and they had guns to our heads.

Lynsey Addario

Tags: Because Up Had