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Lindsay Addario

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
314 total appearances

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

And I've lost friends and colleagues.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

And journalism is equated with death now in a way that it wasn't when I first started out.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

When I first started out, yeah, we put press and journalists and TV on our flak jackets and helmets and

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

And our cars and on the top of our cars in case there was an airstrike to be had.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

And, you know, it's ridiculous.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

Now, of course, I read that passage and I was so naive.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

Well, it was a combination of things.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

I think what happens in these situations is like, you know, we survived.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

Our driver, Mohammed, did not.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

The New York Times sent a team back to Libya to see if they could help find him in one of the prisons, if he was still alive.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

And

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

Essentially, he was never found alive.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

And so we assume he was executed or killed in crossfire in that moment.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

And so there's like a survivor's guilt that happens or that I felt.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

And so when Tim and Chris were killed โ€“

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

Basically, I had been emailing with Tim and Chris.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

I spent the New Year's Eve with them that year with both of them and a bunch of other photographers.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

And Tim and I were emailing in the lead up to his arrival in Libya.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

He was asking me all sorts of questions about what to bring and everything.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

And then when we survived that horrific experience in Libya where we should have been killed โ€“ I mean we could have been killed I don't know how many different โ€“ on how many different occasions.