Lynsey Addario

More than 250,000 people were living basically under siege and are now trying to flee for their lives.

I think it's a really important story.

Of course, I still think Ukraine is an incredibly important story.

I've been working there for three years.

So it's harder and harder for me in Ukraine to find new angles to cover.

But right now I'm looking at Sudan and I'm looking at America, which, you know, there's so much happening here at home.

And I've lived abroad for 25 years.

And so when I come home, I sometimes feel like a foreigner, you know, but I do love the idea of going into a new place in the U.S.

and talking to people with an open mind, an open heart, talking to people the way I do all of my work.

I try to get the emotion of my subjects, but I also try to empathize and feel what it feels like.

It was very dusty, very chaotic.

And I immediately clocked kind of these very small moon boots.

And it dawned on me that it was a family or there were children inside.

And after that, once we got into the car and sort of started heading back to the hotel, I immediately started messaging my editor saying, the reason this picture is important is because I was in this attack.

I survived the mortar attack, and I know that it was an intentional targeting of a civilian evacuation route.

You might remember that photograph.

To create my own family with my husband has been a huge learning curve.

It's really about creating

Your children now, you know, for me, it's about my kids and making sure that they're happy, that they're safe.

Parenting is the hardest thing I've ever done.