Lynsey Addario: photos of love and war

Air Date: October 30, 2018 10:00 am

A man walks through a forest in Rethung Gonpa village outside of Trashigang, in east Bhutan, August 2007.
Iraqis watch a 3-D movie in Baghdad, February 2010.
Kahindo, twenty, sits in her home with her two children born out of rape in North Kivu Province, eastern Congo, April 2008. Prisoners wait
US troops carry the body of Staff Sergeant Larry Rougle, who was killed when Taliban insurgents ambushed their squad in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, October 2007.
An Iraqi woman walks through a plume of smoke rising from a massive fire at a liquid gas factory as she searches for her husband in Basra, Iraq, May 2003.
Noor Nisa, eighteen (right), in labor and stranded with her mother in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, November 2009. Her husband’s first wife died during childbirth, so he was determined to get her to the hospital, a four-hour drive from their village. His borrowed car broke down and I ended up taking them to the hospital, where Noor Nisa delivered a baby girl.
Chuol escaped into a vast swamp in South Sudan when fighters swept into his village, September 2015. 201
One hundred nine African refugees from Gambia, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Guinea, and Nigeria are rescued by the Italian navy from a rubber boat in the sea between Italy and Libya, October 2014.

Guest: Lynsey Addario

LYNSEY ADDARIO has spent two decades photographing some of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. She’s documented the genocide in Darfur, life in Afghanistan under the Taliban, the US-led invasion in Iraq, and the plight of Syrian refugees. She’s worked in some of the most dangerous places in the world and has been kidnapped twice. Throughout her career, she’s also focused her lens on women living through conflicts. Addario’s photojournalism has been awarded a MacArthur and a Pulitzer Prize and she’s the author of the memoir, It’s What I Do. This hour, we’ll talk with Addario about the wars, atrocities, humanity and resilience that she’s witnessed and her new book of photography, Of Love & War.

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