Lynsey Addario has dedicated her life to telling the human side of conflict. Creating images over time that have told a countless number of people’s stories. In 2009 she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Lynsey has the ability to connect the viewer with the subject almost immediately. Something that seems to be of the utmost importance when telling the stories of people who are going through extreme situations, without this connection it’s easy for us to ignore these realities. But what Lynsey does is destroy this ignorance with each photograph. They are quite literally impossible to ignore. The following photographs are a collection of images from Lynsey’s career up until now.
Filmstrips by Lynssey Adario
Pademba Road Prison in Freetown, Sierra Leone
23 November 2006
An Iraqi women searches for her husband after a massive fire at a gas factory.
Basra, Iraq 2003
Fourth Infantry Division soldiers escort a detainee to be photographed.
Balad, Iraq 2003
A man feeding seagulls at dawn.
Baghdad, Iraq 2011
Night time drag racers near Jadriya Lake.
Balad, Iraq 2010
Displaced due to intense fighting between the Congolese Army, the FDRC, and Tutsi leader Nkunda’s soldiers, these Congolese people take refuge in an abandoned Catholic mission in Shasha. Due to the fighting, many civilians have been forced to leave their homes all over the North Kivu region. This mass displacement led to a severe health crisis. In the year leading up to this photo, roughly 410,000 Congolese civilians had been displaced by the fighting. This is in addition to the civilians displaced the year before, bringing the total to 800,000 people forced from their homes in the DRC.
Democratic Republic of Congo, 2007
Nine-year-old Chuol fishes for tilapia in the swamps surrounding his host village. Several months ago, Chuol was chased out of his home village with his grandmother and sister. Their village was attacked, which led to his father and grandfather being burned alive.
South Sudan, 2015
Rebel forces burn tires to mask themselves from Qaddafi’s air strikes.
Libya 2011
Syrian refugee, Hanaa, naps beneath a mosquito net. Like many other Syrian refugees, Hanaa works ten hour days to maintain her place in the settlement where her family landed. She earns $5 a day picking cucumbers in the Bekaa Valley.
Lebanon 2015
A patient at the Kandahar Insane Asylum. Patients are chained to walls and locked in court yards. Decades of war have led to severe mental illness throughout the population, with very little finical support to fund their treatment.
Afghanistan 2001
Blue Ridge and Irvine Fires.
California, USA 2020
Taliban fighters.
Pakistani Afghanistan border 2008
Recruits during the Crucible at Paris Island
South Carolina, USA 2019
Recruits during the Crucible at Paris Island
South Carolina, USA 2019
20 year old Miriam Hamdan and her daughter Jenna Ali Hatman. Jenna is only 1 year and 8 months old and has just been diagnosed with lymphoma due to extreme undernourishment. Something that has become common at the UNICEF feeding center in Northern Yemen.
Sa’ada, North Yemen
Gasim Foreich was burned when her home was bombed in an airstrike on the outskirts of Sa’ada. Gasim is 21 years old.
Yemen 2018
US troops carry the body of their Staff Sergeant, Larry Rouge, who was killed when Taliban insurgents ambushed their squad in The Korengal Valley.
Afghanistan
A soldier with the 173rd Airborne Battle Company on a battalion-wide mission in the village of Yakachina in The Korengal Valley.
Afghanistan, 2007
Sudanese People’s Liberation Army soldiers wait for truck repairs as a sandstorm approaches.
Darfur, Sudan 2004
A Sudanese People’s Liberation Army solider walks through the remains of Hangala Village.
Darfur, Sudan 2004
As fighting continues across Darfur between Arab nomads backed by the government and the Fur and Zargawa tribes, hundreds of thousands of people are internally displaced from their homes and head for refugee camps, like this woman riding through Kalma Camp in Nyala.
Darfur, Sudan, 2005
Sudanese rebels walk past dead Sudanese government soldiers.
Darfur, Sudan 2005