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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 What is something you were told by a parent, teacher, or mentor that you still repeat to yourself?

My parents also said, “Don’t follow money. Follow your heart and you’ll be successful.” That’s all they told me and my sisters.

Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 21 October 2017 source ↗

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