Lynsey Addario

And so there is no point in censoring it.

But I do think I have evidence.

A huge amount of empathy.

I'm trying to understand what it would feel like if, I don't know, me and my sisters were separated because of war or if my fiance had only three days to leave the front line to come and marry me and then he had to turn back and go to Donbass again.

And who knew if he would survive?

And so I think I'm always thinking about what must it feel like?

And I think that makes me a better photographer in the sense that I try to get the emotion of my subjects, but I also try to empathize and feel what it feels like.

And I think ultimately that is captured in the film.

I'm a little embarrassed by how much it's captured, but it is a reality.

Yeah.

Sure.

Yeah, it's really difficult.

That story was after I was named a MacArthur Fellow.

So I won a MacArthur in 2009.

And what I wanted to do with that like unbelievable recognition and money that they give with the fellowship was to focus on a story that I wasn't really getting assigned as a photographer.

So I started looking into different stories and became aware of maternal mortality.

And I really felt like I wanted to learn more and document that.

And so I went to Sierra Leone as one of the first places that I would work with the MacArthur Fellowship.

And I actually went to this Magbaraka Government Hospital.

It was an area with a province with very high maternal death rates.