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Lynsey Addario

Photographs (from top to bottom):
North Darfur: Soldiers with the Sudanese Liberation Army sit by their truck while stuck in the mud and hit by a sandstorm in North-Darfur, Sudan, August 21, 2004
© Lynsey Addario, 2004
Burned Village Hangala, North Dafur. A Sudanese Liberation Army soldier walks through the remains of Hangala village, which was burned by Janjaweed several months before, August 27, 2004
© Lynsey Addario, 2004

Lynsey Addario is a photojournalist based in Istanbul, Turkey, where she freelances for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, among others, through her New York-based photo agency, Corbis.

Addario began photographing professionally in 1996, with no professional training or studies, for The Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina. She worked there for one year before returning to New York. In 1997, she began freelancing for the New York Daily News, Newsday, and eventually the Associated Press, where she became a consistent contributor for three years. During her time in New York, Addario completed several overseas self-assignments, with Cuba as a focus.

In January 2000, Addario moved to India. While there she traveled from the main cities in India, dedicating most of her work in South Asia to the treatment of women in the developing world: the life of women under the Taliban, female burn victims in India, and the lives of women along the Ganges River. After spending two years based in Mexico City she returned to South Asia, where she covered the war in Afghanistan and women's education since the fall of the Taliban, and myriad immigration, human-rights, and social features in Mexico for a variety of publications including The New York Times.

In January 2003, Addario moved to Istanbul, Turkey, in order to situate herself closer to feature and news stories in the Middle East. In February, she traveled to Northern Iraq, where she spent six months covering Northern and Southern Iraq for The New York Times Magazine, Time, and The New York Times. She has recently been working on feature stories in Saudi Arabia.

In 2002, Addario was named the "Young Photographer" of the year by the International Center of Photography, one of the Thirty Best Emerging Photographers by Photo District News Magazine, and was selected and participated along with eleven other photographers in World Press Masterclass in Amsterdam in November 2003.

Since August 2004, Addario is travelling to Darfur regularly.

For more information about Lynsey Addario's work, please visit
www.lynseyaddario.com

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