Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist based in London who photographs for The New York Times, National Geographic and Time Magazine. In 2000, she traveled to Afghanistan to document life and oppression under the Taliban. She has since covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, Congo and Libya, shooting features primarily focused on human rights issues and humanitarian crises across the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. Addario has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009. She was part of he New York Times team that won the Pulitzer Prize that year for international reporting.

Photographer Lynsey Addario is always in the middle of the action. Here she's photographed on assignment in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan. (Photo by Balazs Gardi)

Soldiers with the 4th ID, 3rd Brigade, from the 1st Batallian-68th Armored Regiment momentarily detain and search Iraqi men during a night patrol north of Baghdad near the Balad Base in Iraq, June 27, 2003. Minutes after this image was shot, an Iraqi civilian crossed over what was possibly a remote detonated explosive device set in the road intended for the US troops meters before the convoy of US vehicles, and severlely injured the man. In recent weeks, United States troops have suffered hundreds of attacks by Iraqi throughout Iraq, and are stepping up offensive operations throughout the country in search of opponents to US occupation of Iraq. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

Sudanese Liberation Army soldiers walk past a dead body left from an attack on civilians in the district of Farawiya, Darfur, August 24, 2004. Sixteen bodies lay in the surrounding ravines after men from five nearby villages were allegedly killed by Janjaweed militias backed by Sudanese government forces. (Photo by Lynsey Addario)

Soldiers with the Sudanese Liberation Army parade their weapons during a rebel conference for the SLA in Haskanita, in SLA territory in Darfur, Sudan, October 2005. (Photo by Lynsey Addario)

Photojournalist Lynsey Addario shooting the presidential election in Afghanistan in 2014. (Photo by Bryan Denton)

Children swim in former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussain's pool at one of his palaces in Mosel, April 29, 2003. Since the fall of the regime of Saddam HUssain, civilians have been enjoying the riches of the former leader. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/Corbis)

Soldiers with the 4th ID, 3rd Brigade, from the 1st Batallian-68th Armored Regiment stand over Iraqis they have found and detained on a compound American intelligence indicated belonged to members of the Bathist party and supporters of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussain in the early hours of the morning roughly 30 km North of Baghdad near Balad, June 29, 2003. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

Opposition troops take positions as they push west outside of Ras Lanuf after taking the city back from troops loyal to Qaddafi in Ras Lanuf, in Eastern Libya, March 5, 2011. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

United States Marine and the Female Engagement Teams attached to the Marines, Captain Emily Naslundm, patrols through the village of Soorkano, in Helmand, Afghanistan, May 7, 2010. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

A soldier with the opposition weeps outside of the hospital in Ras Lanuf as soldiers are being brought in wounded and dead from the frontline west of Ras Lanuf during heavy fighting between troops loyal to Qaddafi in Ras Lanuf, in Eastern Libya, March 9, 2011. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

Kids play around a burning car in a residential neighborhood in Benghazi, in Eastern Libya, February 28, 2011. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

Opposition troops pull back from the main checkpoint near the refinery in Ras Lanuf as troops loyal to Qaddafi shell the area in Ras Lanuf, in Eastern Libya, March 10, 2011. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

U.S. troops carry the body of Staff Sgt. Larry Rougle, who was killed when insurgents ambushed his squad in the Korengal Valley. (Photo by Lynsey Addario)

United States Marines with the Female Engagement Teams attached to infantry divisions of the Marines visit the clinic in Now Zad, in Northern Helmand, May 8, 2010. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

Iraqi women weep as they walk along rows of remains of bodies, some looking for loved ones, discovered in a mass grave South of Bagdad, and lied out in a building in Iraq, May 29, 2003. (Photo by Lynsey Addario)

Opposition troops gather at the hospital in Ras Lanuf as soldiers are being brought in from the frontline west of Ras Lanuf during heavy fighting between troops loyal to Qaddafi in Ras Lanuf, in Eastern Libya, March 9, 2011. Dangerous confrontations have been going on between opposition forces and those loyal to Col. Qaddafi across Libya. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

United States Marines take a break to shave in front of one of Saddam Hussain's presidential palaces the day Tikrit fell from Republican Guard rule in Iraq, April 15, 2003. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/Corbis)

Soldiers with the Sudanese Liberation Army sit by their truck while struck in the mud in Darfur, Sudan, August 21, 2004. The SlA is one of the Sudanese rebel groups controlling parts of Darfur.Rebels, and are currently staging a 24-hour boycott of the Nigerian peace talks for Sudan in protest of recent new attacks against civilians in Darfur, which they say killed 75 civilians in six villages. Up to 50,000 people have died since the conflict began in February 2003 and more than a million have fled their homes for fear of attack by the Janjaweed. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

American soldiers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade Battle Company, on a battalion-wide mission in the Korengal Valley, looking for caves, weapons caches and known Taliban leaders, 2007. Tanner Stichter tends to Spc. Carl Vandeberge in the bushes moments after Vandeberge was shot in the stomach during a Taliban ambush, which killed one soldier and wounded two others. (Photo by Lynsey Addario)

Iraqi men are detained, bound, and hooded in a compound during a night raid by troops with the 4th ID, 3rd Brigade, from the 1st Batallian-68th Armored Regiment American about 30 km North of Baghdad near Balad, Iraq, June 29, 2003. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/Getty Reportage)

A Sudanese Liberation Army soldier walks through the remains of Hangala village, which was burned by Janjaweed near Farawiya, in Darfour, several months ago, August 27, 2004. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers deface a poster of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussain's poster in the Kirkuk Governate building in Kirkuk hours after it fell from Iraq Central Government rule, April 10, 2003. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/Corbis)

Villagers wrap the body of an old woman before her burial in the Kalma camp for internally displaced people in Nyala, south Darfur, Sudan, on November 6, 2005. As fighting continued across Darfur between Arab nomads backed by government forces and ethnic Africans, hundreds of thousands of internally displaced civilians flooded the camps. (Photo by Lynsey Addario)

Photographer Lynsey Addario keeps her camera dry while crossing a river in southern Sudan in 2004. (Photo by Lynsey Addario)