Lynsey Addario

I get emails sometimes.

I get messages.

But it's rare that I hear that feedback.

That was really a gift for me.

Yeah, I think it allows me an invitation into certain spaces, like when I'm working in Afghanistan and men and women are separated by gender, right?

So I have access as a foreign woman, I have access to Afghan women, but I also have access to men because we're seen as sort of this third sex, like a neutral gender where we can access both men and women.

And that is really a gift because my male colleagues cannot go into private homes and see women unveiled or living a traditional lifestyle.

And so I do think that the other thing that tends to be a gift is that in most parts of the world, women are underestimated and kind of dismissed and like, oh, she's not a threat.

It's just a woman.

And when I was younger, it was even more so because they just saw me as this like young woman who...

What could she possibly know or do?

And I really was able to move around under the radar.

And that for any journalist, any photographer is incredible.

I mean, it's exactly what we look for because we're looking for authenticity in life.

We're looking for scenes that capture, you know, reality without people paying attention to us.

And so that has also been really helpful.

Yeah, I think, look, when my husband and I met, my husband, Paul, is Swedish and English.

And when we met, he knew what my life was about.

And he's a journalist.

He was a journalist with Reuters for 16 years.