American photojournalist and New York Times bestseller Lynsey Addario has defined her career on the battlefield, capturing incredible images from conflict zones around the world.
She recently sat down with VICE to talk about how her life as a photojournalist has resulted in her being kidnapped twice. The eight-minute interview also sees Addario talk about life, death and a number of other contemporary topics. It’s an inspiring interview that shares an inside look at the life, work and mind of a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and someone whom Jennifer Lawrence will be playing as in her biopic.
You can find Lynsey Addario’s book and browse her extensive portfolio on her website.
Funny thing is that our modern western societies were built on christian values and on one hand we have some people manifesting against sending paid troops to other parts of the world under false excuses tjat every adult should be aware of and at the same time we have factories thatbproduce weapons that than find it's way to many conflicts across the globe and somehow we still think about our selfs as moral beeings and those that stand in right not wrong. We have even priests for god's sake that are working for armies...
Petak@ Yes but that is obvious isn't it? Peasants are working in those and have no problems that by doing it they help with injustice in the world. I remember when big group of workers were manifesting in one of european country few years ago when there was a plan to shut down that 'bussines'... As long as they have money to pay for all their bills they are happy to build war machines that takes lifes of whoever... Illusion will finish shortly and drastically. See you there.
Mr Bolton@ It is a fact. The fact is that europeans have been and are claiming this very thing, that our european values have been built upon christian teachings. Don't need to go to christian-pagan syncretism, propaganda of realpolitik, or humanity's hypocrisy... All known quite well.
Mr Bolton@ Way before crusades, i'm from central europe, and what you know now as Poland was forced to become christian in 10th century, and it was pressure from german tribes that help with decision. There was enormous support for this transformation based in old roman empire. And it's not because of Jesus but his name was used in order to push this agenda. Fact however is that majority of european people will point to christian values as corner stone of modern european nations, including Russia and not ancient Greeks, Phoenicians, Egyptians or Sumerians. And when they say 'christian values' they mean strict teachings of Jesus and not crusades, religious wars or conquistadors...
Regardless of what Jesus actually taught-and who knows because the Bible we all read from was written 100 years after he died-the truth about Christianity is right there in the remains of the New World's indigenous cultures and cities. And in every African village whose cultural identity was erased by missionaries spreading the Gospel, as the entry point for slavery.
Watched the video. Certainly its a young persons game and probably best to be an adrenaline junky with a lofty ego. There are images that help define a conflict but they are fixed in time and society somehow has to live past them while at the same time using them as reminders. We need those images in our history. Ms. Addario finds the good and bad in those things she chooses or is or is not politically aligned with. Her comments would have been more powerful if she had left out the political group think commentary. She literally can come and go as she pleases, lives in a nicely lighted home void of the badness and the unwashed living on the fringe in her own country. Her memories don’t change a thing. The lesser human beings living in a ditch called soldiers and marines have memories. The best they can hope for is to qualify for a VA loan. They ask for nothing or very little. I wish I could say that the bureaucracy had their back the way the journalism profession has hers.
No journo has ever gotten rich of the job. Every soldier she ever photographed watched her run around unarmed with nothing but a camera to capture a moment of their life with their friends. Lives that might be gone tomorrow. Her work was important to the people she met
Well... People usually get rich as mean to emphasize their meaning in eyes of their social environment. But there are other ways to achieve this. Doing a rare and dangerous job can join both, need for adrenaline rush as part of self fulfilment and gaining social respect. Those are benefits of this kind of job. Not everybody is into it therofore job type becomes sort of Elitist kind of profession. And there are potencial benefits down the line in long term. Next stages of career in civil department, payed speeches, books, prizes, contacts with people in power etc. Another illusion is that war photojournalists are risking their life on regular daily rate. They are not at the front line but they can easily make it look like it. Gimme a break with them beeing heros. They are being send there by corporate media that are steered in this case by military industrial complexes coordinated by secret services and are being told where can go what can do and what will be published and if, when.
@marek There have been and will continue to be journalists on the front line. They're often independents getting by on experience, fortitude and a bunch of luck. There's not a lot of businesses willingly putting good employees under fire
3pgrey@ Just technicality, some my be called 'independant' but in reality they depend on many mechanics of war machine. Where they can go and what will be filmed or photographed depends from leading army man in that place and that depends from his boss and that from his boss and so on. Than, your material will have to go through 'safety measures' within corporate media that in reality word 'independant' is just another way for corporate tool - what media exactly have been created for - to cover simple fact that they are just a tool. How many scandlas, war crimes, were knew by photojournalists right at the time or just after and how many of them leaked to public long time after and only because it was the will of some at the top to use it in order to shift public conscience or destroy political enemies, or rearrange political scene. People should open their eyes and start seeing world in its true shape. It ugly place and 'modern' humanity is drowning in hypocrisy.
@marek Plenty of well known freelance journos with stories to boot. You know the only way to get sent to a war zone is often to have experience in one. Most frontline journalists started by packing their bags and getting into a war zone on their own
War journalists were always doing it for one main reason. They have no real control how their work is going to be used short and long term but main concern always was this: "They all seem to agree that the glory and fame that come with a big story are usually stronger motivators than the story itself. Reporters are told that they are crazy to be there, but then get rewarded (with actual journalism awards) for inserting themselves into the "bang bang" of frontline dangers." And that is ok, we have on this planet much hypocrisy and many people play role model characters being perceived by society as some sort of heroes when in reality they are another layer of systemic disease.
@marek The glory of war died in Vietnam for most of the world. Awareness and sympathy for mental illness and the baggage soldiers bring back from war are embraced by most western countries. Soldiers get awarded medals for serving their country. I don't see how awarding journalists on the frontline should be shunned. For whatever reason they've chosen to be out there doesn't detract from the fact it costs every soul dearly
3pgrey@ Humanity condition is in a very bad state. War is sort of ultimate feast of human's stupidity in dark colors. People that waste their potential in order to appear as someone that matters and at the same time are ending being nothing else than useful tools in hands of mighty people that run world's affairs are not making me impressed. But taki it further... If war journalists are doing such a good job since war became full scale mediatic event some time in 20th century, why are we heading cruel end of humanity tjat is just round the corner? They would impressed me if instead of 'risking' their life's for fame and benefits that comes with ot instead they would put an effort to expose groups of people that sell war to societies and ruin this planet with their greed and their influence...but that is rather to risky isn't it and at the same time, not many media corporations would pay for such documents, in reality, none would... That would be 'hero like' activity.
To me war reporters are nothing else than extention of corporate world of political mechanics whether they are direct workers or indirect, called 'independant'.
3pgrey@ Word about soldiers... Are they christians too? In many countries now, they are not being forced into army and consequently into war but instead are volunteers that are being offered path of long term career... Why would you worship them, give them medals, knowing that wars they have been used for are dirty full scale businesses played by very shady people? Humanity deserves what os coming and it is coming soon unfortunately. We need this lesson as badly now as fresh air.
@marek The end of the world has been coming tomorrow since forever. Get some air, take a break from tv and videogames and relax; it's not about to end anytime soon. Maybe even take some photos. The world doesn't work the way you think
You don't get it. Like majority. I can only hope that 'yet' and one day you will be born to this world again and see it for what it really is. There was never end of the world as such in plans for now. What however was coming is end of global human civilization and that will be ugly and dramatic process.
I hold revelation for later and for bigger audience but i can tell you now that when you will see full scale attack on the region that is source of planetary main energy that was used to develop this fragile global illusion, you better start acting quickly and don't waste your time watching to much of news. Later you might see all of the 'bueaty' of this long comming transformation towards new brave world. You will see statets of emergency, martial laws, global economic collapse, collapse of fiat currencies, implementation of crypto currency based systems where everything is smart and connected into one gigantic grid governed by all seeing eye being always representation of ai with help of robots. By the way, humans will be connected too. New full smart post humans.
Soon people will get what they were paying for, literally. And than during and just after 4th revolution called 'industrial' some will mature to thought that it was all part of a big plan and humanity was forewarned for millennia but nobody listened, everybody was busy spending many they dodn't have buying things they didn't need, making heroes out of ordinary slaves to the system. Tada.
No doubt the trilateral commission that includes the Kennedys, the Rothschilds and Colonel Sanders are all in cahoots. And we are left holding the cards.
Seriously though Marek I do have to give you credit. As a society we never do learn from our mistakes. Some profit but we never seem to correct our behavior.
2Oceans@ If we teach little children to be part of the system, do what system want us to do and when and we accept all excuses and lies down the line how than can we expect that process of opening eyes to all of the lies that are part of powerfull program will be easy and successful? Grown ups will be mostly so invested in illusion that opening of their eyes will be dealt with denial. Swimming with the flow is so convenient. There is this powerfull and simple scene in matrix movie when morpheus walks with neo in ny simulation and explains how every mind of people is connected...metaphor for our programmed societies. Neo's fight training is metaphor for building skils that helps in battle for the truth with disinformation, half truth and blatant lies that system implemented right from the beginning. Religious figures, philosophers, thinkers, were all saying this all the way from the beginning.
2Oceans@ Believe it or not, trilateral Commission, bilderberg group, fames banking cartels are all tools in this global theater. 5th angel sounded - pentagon 9 - and there was a star falling... 11 - and they have their ruller over them...
"You don't get it. Like majority. I can only hope that 'yet' and one day you will be born to this world again and see it for what it really is." Pro-tip, Marek: impugning your audience's intelligence, and making assumptions about their experience-level, is an excellent way to chase them away...
Eric@ Exactly this! Swallowing pride involved in one's ego and going through regardless in order to check the message is what i'm for. Wasting time on the big scale in zombie land and thinking one can get everyone back right away is not serious. 48 16 11
You don’t know what you are talking about. Maybe you should ask soldiers if they appreciate reporters and photographers being there is a net positive or not. In the past they would say it’s a net positive. I’ve talked to some of the best war photographers who have ever covered war (James Nachtwey in particular) and they have done remarkable work that makes a difference. Enough of a difference? Clearly not.
As Robert Capa once said, his greatest wish was to become an unemployed war photographer. I suspect most of them would agree. But politicians and despots desperately hope they fail at their job.
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” - Dorothea Lange. Another wise lady we should pay attention to.
In some comments here, there’s a cynicism towards documentarians. It is misplaced. But, I suppose when the president of the USA can routinely blame the messenger, such sentiments are common excuses for ignoring information - none more dangerous than information that might force someone to rethink their positions. Too many people know (what little) they know and don’t want to hear otherwise.
I have grown weary with war photographers when I realized how many truths and lies there are. The images evoke strong emotions but do not necessarily give enough information to form an educated view of what is happening and what should be done about it. What happens, people get anxious and adapt opinions that seem right to their amygdalas when in fact all we see is just a piece of a complicated puzzle where pieces are forced if they do not fit. Kill a person, it is murder. Kill thousand, it is power politics. No corpses, only collateral damage. I am not sure if we get any better as human beings watching these picures. War is big business. War photography is nothing more, just business.
Unless the photo is deliberately misleading, which has happened in the past, I think most people understand that a photo can only show so much. As for business, you speak like there's something inherently conflicting with it and decent morals. Truth is that business is a great way of getting things done, whether it's an NGO or your favorite sports drink sponsoring an athlete. Money is a great equaliser and opens a lot of doors
There is an industry creating false news reels. Check MEMRI for one point of view. Check Al-Jazeera for another. Business can be good but once it is state-sponsored it takes this certain stench I cannot stomach. The pictures from My Lai helped end the American war effort in Southeast Asia. The genocide-scale mass murders by the American troops in Cambodia, East Timor, and Bangladesh did not keep Henry Kissinger from getting the Nobel Peace Price. They did not get the screen time. Why might that be? (Read Hitchens)
I just hate the hypocrisy of the Deep State American press and the 'heroes' they have in their service. Same goes for CAIR, BBC. AFP, Reuters, the Russians, and the MSM. Everything Propaganda-BANG.
What I hate most is how they underestimate my mental abilities. As if I could not surf and read? Bellingcat, anybody? Do you know who they are?
Sorry. If this is too political for this thread, I 'star' you all.
Yes, news consumption is good only if you find multiple sources, and read them over a period of time. Then you can form an accurate idea of what's going on. One single source, no matter how ethical, can make mistakes and misunderstand things. So it takes time and effort to get the news. And most journalists would agree with that.
"incredible images from conflict zones" - how do you like it? Others die and you doing "incredible images"... Now ask please - why there is no war and death in China? Why there is no even criminal now? Why there is also possible to do " incredible images" but without "conflict zones"? What what this kind of "bestseller photographers" will do without that "conflict zones"? And also, why they doesn't photographs the manufacturers and owners of companies who producing and sales the weapons to that "conflict zones", if they are such brave?
I would strongly debate the statement that there is no conflict or death in China. If it is not coming to our attention it is more likely the suppression of a free press. Take Hong Kong, which China is proud to say is its territory. There is plenty of conflict there and more than one death.
Photographers risk life and limb to show people what is actually happening in war zones, how those photographs are used is often dependent upon the level of propagandist control under which they are released. A free press shows not only the conflict but tells the story of the human impact on those fighting, and misery of those whose lives are impacted as collateral damage.
There are many cases where images from conflict photographers have galvanized public opinion and caused political change to end conflict. Going into a fire zone with no weapon requires a very special kind of bravery.
There is "no conflict", because millions of people are in internment camps or re-education camps for their political beliefs or religion. Often under torture.
And if you are Falun Gong practitioner you probably have it especially bad. I mean they are literally harvested for their organs. Over 100.000 people have been killed for their organs. Those are far more people than the war in Afghanistan for example....
Good questions. If there is no conflict they will create one to keep spending more tax payers $$$ on 'protecting country'.
And yes, we need to look into ones who are selling guns and mostly the ones who are sponsoring wars because wars are nothing else but another dirty business.
There is no war in China, but there's martial law and curfew in Xinjiang, large swaths of Tibet are also completely off limits to all foreigners, access is also restricted to tour groups for Chinese nationals. Of course there are deaths in China, there are as many deaths as there are births in China, but aside from deaths with suspicious ties to the government, the reportage of other deaths is also strongly suppressed. Suicides for example commonly show up on news in Japan, but two people jumped from a shopping complex just across the street and I'd only known after a week, by word of mouth. There are thousands of labor disputes active across China every day that some NGOs are taking track of, but ultimately they only end up as data points, very seldomly are they allowed media expression. Unlike the GM incident in the US. Remember that the CCP took control of the country earning the support of workers' uprisings. They could label anything "negative energy" and ban it from the media.
Reportage of China is somewhat exaggerated by western media, but that exaggeration is warranted if you believe in substantive justice over procedural justice, because obstruction of flow of information is that bad in China. "Facts“ could be "killed", if you're powerful enough. If 9/10 facts never surface, you could exaggerate on the last one ten times and get a somewhat representative picture.
Oh yeah, an award-winning documentary was banned in China (this isn't the only one, frankly),"Dead Souls", about a history the Party aims to bury, highly recommended.
China's human rights (inhumane) are abysmal. They harvest organs of prisoners, have over 1 million in their prisons and these are absolute hell holes. Female babies killed or aborted in late term. It's the worst country in the world and I do everything possible to never buy China made items. My physician of 20+ years is from China and he's afraid to return after threats of prison from a visit 10 years ago. Said he and his wife escaped with their lives. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-organ-harvesting/un-urged-to-investigate-organ-harvesting-in-china-idUSKBN1W92FL
China has conflict now. They have criminals. You need to stop believing such transparently false propaganda. I’ve been to China. The people are wonderful for the most part. But the government rules with ruthlessness and few are willing to challenge it. But just while I was there many Chinese nationals were sentenced to death for drug smuggling. So no criminals? What fantasy land do you live in?
sh10453 - in this article you can read - this is a fake documents, as well as its funny when the number 1 brain washer BB C talk about brain washing. They show some ordinary photo and writing scary texts without any real facts. Somebody says something... I live in China last 14 years and have movements every year more then 100000 km inside country, meeting with people, etc. Come here and see by your eyes whats happened here and don't believe to BBC scams, they are one of the oldest scammers in Europe... China became almost number one country in any aspects of life now, then BBC must show to people its not true, but its true. I am not a advocate of China, in fact China doesn't want my advocacy, but I say what is true without BBC scams additions.
I will tell you - its a historical truth and opened eyes... You can also try them, also you can open your eyes, will very help you... Also, people beginning about "drinks" when they doesn't have arguments.
Opened eyes blinded by the light of Xi, surely. Just this week there was an attempt of forced demolition of cultural heritage sites in close proximity to the former residence of Lu Xun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Xun . The owners of the sites(who were still living in the structures) had a whole set of photos of the extensive damage, many witnesses, and provided a specific time and place, and their posts were censored, instead of publically refuted, so I believe them. They didn't come with the bulldozers, the demolition team just bashed down the door and manually demolished the internal living space in a bid to drive away the inhabitants, so they could pretend to legally acquire the site for next to nothing, typical mafia behavior. Ironically, the attempted demolition was to make way for a "red education platform", essentially a place to be force fed Communist cool-aid, what you're already high on. Now read the link on Lu Xun and guess how he would've written about this.
I know photographers who were in the middle of Tiananmen Square (which I visited in 2013). The brutal suppression of the people is emblematic of a government so fearful of its own people that it will stop at nothing to suppress the slightest disagreements. What we do in America without fear - Trump is a traitor and should be jailed! - you would tremble in fear to do. You'd be afraid to criticize Xi's choice of shirt color.
When I was there, every time Xi was in the air, every commercial airline had to sit on the ground and wait for his plane to land before they could take off. I experienced this myself several times while there. A man that scared of his own people has no business being their leader.
Must be a very special drive for these types of photographers and appreciate what they do to bring us news and photos like this. Yep, she has guts for sure. A lot of admiration for them. Thanks for this one DPR.
Fantastic video. I greatly admire that fact that she is trying to captures fact and reality over dangerous / conspiracy theories and alternate reality. It also shows her bravery of covering war trauma. She has definitely more balls that 99% of us. A rather impressive career path, as a woman and mother.
Thanks for sharing this video. We need more of those.
now, i do not even look. to me the idea of rushing off to film people murdering each other is, as Larry Burrows said capitalizing on the grief of others, and a pretty sick way of making a living- if that is what you can call this junkie habit: because the photographs do NOT have any effect of the killer politicians at all, they just carry on, while we have to look at what they are doing with public tax-payers money in our name, because some of us voted them in to encourage them to continue- we, by voting, are agreeing to all of this: instead of finding other employment, arms workers need the killing to continue to stay in their jobs- and a lot longer than Trump and May and Blair etc do in theirs! "A job for life", takes on its real meaning at quite another level here.
It was pictures and television coverage that brought home the horrors of the Vietnam war and swung public opinion against it and eventually led to the withdrawl of US troops.
Yes, but we all know that war is hell and that people do sh*tty things to each other. Glorifying her part in it all does nothing to prevent it from happening again. Rinse and repeat...
I don't think a lot of people do realise until they are forced to confront it through images and tv coverage. The human race has not got a great collective memory when it comes to war, it gets glamourised in movies and video games and we need reminding occasionaly about the true horrors of war by people reporting about it from the ground. The greatest atrocities are carried out when there is no accountability, no real time record of what is happening, how much worse would Bosnia have been without the world being alerted to what was happening and being forced to act?
@brexit Its a hard subject to want to understand. But that doesn't make it unimportant. People talk about war photography existing to bring change to a conflict and though it has that power, it's not the only change it brings. Life is hard no matter where on the food chain you are but images like this help put the struggles we face everyday, regardless of how big or small, into a better perspective
the clinging to our suffering is what marks our society as degenerate, depraved, and the modern war photographer who has not learned this, and so avoided the trap laid by the media, necessarily seeks gratification for their troubles through money, fame, etcetera.
They are however pandering to the tastes of a population, so depressed and nihilistic that we actually watch endless documentaries on war, the Nazis, Vietnam, the Krays, etcetera, and I have clear memories of seeing Baghdad being obliterated almost live on the news- and you can find the same stuff without even trying, no problem. Photojournalism is part of big business: its images fill the gaps between text and ads in papers and magazines: its storylines appall and excite to sell sell sell and it adds to the world our kids grow up in and imitate in massacres, school shootings and gun and knife crime. That it stops wars is a myth, your dead children and govt. budgets stop wars: ask any war photographer.
@bretix A slight topic shift but still relevant. The depressed nihilistic society of today isn't looking for war when they watch a documentary on it. I'd argue they're looking for honesty in a life full of action movies and superheroes. Anyone who's seen a bad car accident up close knows no one wants to see trauma. War photography often shows us doing our best at our worst, and even if it doesn't stop war it still has a positive impact on us all
So we ignore war and let them get away with it? No effect? Ever hear of Vietnam? I visited the Army’s school for generals at Ft. Leavenworth and talked to the director of the school. And photographed him. You don’t know diddly about war photography. He very clearly believed the press and Pentagon papers, as well as a Walter Cronkite’s report of the Tet Offensive were directly involved in the country turning against the war, once the government’s lies were exposed.
Well she has more guts than me. That’s a fact. But in my opinion photojournalism is a luxury for those with no stake in the outcome. It’s the fine art of someone else’s misery and misfortune. War is hell. No kidding, but when the knife is at my throat, I don’t need a photographer. I need a Marine with a gun.
@brotherbill It might be hard to value anything but your own life when it's under threat, the people in the field carrying cameras instead of guns probably ask the same question. I dont think theres a single journalist who wouldnt find hard to do their job. Something no soldier can do. I think you value photography too little to say otherwise
The world needs more like her. It’s way too easy to take for granted the commitment needed to be a truthful witness to such events. When such a person singles out liars, we should all listen. She knows what she’s talking about.
My feeling is that this is a very valuable video, especially to watch all the way through.
This is a level-headed person, admirable, yes, who is worthwhile to understand.
There's a directness to her speaking which seems very tied to the directness of what she does. She raises her own family while doing this work, and this is just one way of understanding that what she does is a very considered choice.
Again, I felt it quite worthwhile to listen to her.
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