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Lynsey Addario

Photojournalist and war photographer; Pulitzer Prize winner, 2009

United States · b. 1973

American photojournalist who has covered conflict and humanitarian crises in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Darfur, Congo, Syria and Ukraine for The New York Times, Time and National Geographic. She was part of the team awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and was kidnapped twice while working.

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Question In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to?

I think I naturally felt like I needed to pull back, and maybe that’s one of the reasons why I decided to get pregnant then because I was 37, and I had Lukas at 38. So I have not been covering combat recently. I haven’t covered combat in a few years. I’ve been in South Sudan. I’ve been under fire. But I’m not like — it’s a very different time, also, in history. … Now I feel like I was very torn about not being in Mosul, but I didn’t go because I felt like it was extremely dangerous, and I just couldn’t do that to my family.

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