Lynsey Addario
Award-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario was both the Margo Johnson Lecturer and Melissa Dilworth Gold Visiting Artist this fall. Ms. Addario won the Overseas Press Club’s Award for Veiled Rebellion, which documents the plight of women in Afghanistan. She was awarded a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, and in 2009 she was part of the New York Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for her photographs of “Talibanistan.” In 2015, American Photo magazine named her one of the five most influential photographers of the past 25 years. Ms. Addario is the author of the recently published memoir titled It’s What I Do — A Photographer’s Life of Love and War.
“I believe people have to see the ways in which other people live. We come from a place of great privilege, but most people in the world don’t have anything. They have to fight for peace, for rights, for food.”