Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist based in New Delhi, India, where she covers South Asia for The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine.
Addario was born in 1973, and began photographing professionally in 1996—with no photographic training or studies–for The Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina, where she worked over the course of one year before returning to the United States. She then returned to New York, where she freelanced for the Associated Press for three years before moving back abroad to cover South Asia and Latin America for the AP, the Boston Globe and Houston Chronicle. In 2001, Addario began working for The New York Times in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and since then, has freelanced for the NYT from bases in Mexico, Iraq, and Turkey, covering feature stories worldwide, in addition to the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, and Congo.
Lynsey has been the recipient of numerous awards, including:
MACARTHUR FELLOWSHIP, 2009: was one of 24 Americans named in September 2009 a recipient of the prestigious “genius award” of $500,000 from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in recognition of her career in photojournalism.
PULITZER PRIZE, 2009: Awarded the Pulitzer Prize as part of the New York Times team for International Reporting. Her photographic work was part of the NYT coverage of the war in Afghanistan for the magazine cover article ‘Talibanistan,’ Sept 7, 2008.
GETTY IMAGES GRANT FOR EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY 2008: Was awarded a grant of $20,000 to enable her to continue her photographic work in Darfur, Sudan
FELLOW OF THE COLUMBIA COLLEGE OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: awarded a fellowship to document a photo essay and accompanying interviews with victims of sexual assault in the Democratic Republic of Congo
FUJI YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER, 2005
Perpignan, France: Chosen by Fuji as the young photographer of the year to exhibit photographs and present a slideshow at Visa pour L’Image for a photographic essay on injured American soldiers in Balad, Iraq
WORLD PRESS MASTERCLASS, Amsterdam: Selected as one of the 12 participants in the World Press Masterclass, created a body of work for the project, and exhibited it along with 11 other students at the Amsterdam Photography Museum, FOAM.
AMERICAN PHOTO ANNUAL: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008: Selected photo essays and singles appeared from Iraq, Mexico, and Pakistan for the annual ‘Best of…’ photo book.
INFINITY AWARD, International Center of Photography: Young Photographer of the Year, 2002, New York City
PDN’S THIRTY: Named one of the world’s 30 emerging photographers by Photo District News Magazine in their March 2002 issue
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