Lynsey Addario

For example, the first time I went into Afghanistan, I was probably one of a handful of journalists who went in under the Taliban over that year.

So that information becomes not only exclusive, but fundamental to informing the public as to what's going on on the ground.

I think now we see people, there are citizen journalists, people are documenting their own stories in real time.

For me, that doesn't take away from the information.

importance of doing my work and the importance of being on the ground because there's no substitute for having a journalist with the skills I have to fact check, to gather information, to do solid reporting, to sit down and have a one on one conversation with someone and

record their testimony.

You know, AI still can't do that.

So for me, it's really about being there, being on the ground, gaining the trust of the subjects, and then having that come through in my photographs and in my work.

And so you had mentioned before, you feel like my pictures are really intimate and that for me, it's about that.

I want to be able to make pictures that will

Stop the reader, stop people in their tracks, make them ask what's happening in this photographs.

You know, what is the story that is going on?

And to also be a little bit ahead of the curve.

You know, for example, we've just started talking about the war in Sudan that's been going on for over 18 months.

So, for example, the first half of this year, I spent most of the year going in and out of Khartoum, Darfur, neighboring Chad.

And that was important to me.

Exactly.

And so that story was sort of very prescient and very important because now people are talking about it and they can go back and read that amazing article that sort of lays out what's happening right now.

I'm looking at going back to Sudan.

I think that the recent attacks in al-Fasher are horrific and the fact that