Lynsey Addario: Biography

Lynsey Addario was born in Westport, Connecticut, and received a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. After photographing in Argentina, Italy, India, and Mexico, she has spent the last three years working out of Istanbul, Turkey.

Throughout her career, Addario has focused on human rights issues, ranging from the effects of the Castro regime in Cuba to life under the Taliban in Afghanistan to the war in Iraq. She has documented the human and psychological toll of the U.S. occupation in Iraq, while also shooting news features on the crisis in Darfur, women in Saudi Arabia, the lifting of sanctions in Libya, and the democratic movement in Lebanon.

Addario’s photographs have appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic Adventure, as well as several books on Iraq. She has exhibited her images in Connecticut and New York.

In 2005, Addario was awarded the Fuji Prize at Perpignan for her work on wounded soldiers in Iraq and an honorable mention for her work on Sudan by the National Press Photographers Association. She won third place in the Pictures of the Year awards for her 2003 work on the bombings in Turkey, and was one of 12 participants in the World Press Masterclass in Amsterdam in 2003. In 2002Addario was named Young Photographer of the Year by the International Center of Photography, and one of the Thirty Best Emerging Photographers by Photo District News.