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Sam Fragoso

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195 total appearances

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

Speaking of the documentary, one of the reasons you agreed to participate in the film is because you had seen several other films about war correspondence.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

And they were always about men and, quote, no one ever really got it right.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

What did you want to correct in making this movie?

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

There's a moment in the film where we see you in Somalia, Panama, and the Darien Gap, where you're working to tell these urgent stories, to show us in vivid photographic detail the cost of conflict, while also fielding a typical call from your family back home.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

I want to play a clip from that moment.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

In it, your husband Paul speaks first.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

Hearing that clip now, how did it play to you?

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

Did he sign the photojournalist prenup?

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

You say in the film that raising kids is harder than war, which is a great one line joke.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

But is any of that bit true for you?

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

In your memoir, It's What I Do, you write, when I return home and rationally consider the risks, the choices are difficult.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

But when I'm doing my work, I'm alive.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

Correct.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

So when you're back home, how do you grapple with that?

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

Lindsay, I want to talk about how you arrived at doing all this work in the first place, which I believe began back in 1996, working at the Buenos Aires Herald, where you were paid $10 a picture.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

At that point, did you know what photographer you wanted to be?

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

Well, hold on, Lindsay, hold on.

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

Why do you think you were so relentless?

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

Why did you keep badgering them?

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War Photographer Lynsey Addario Still Has Hope

But is the dog in this because you're the youngest of four growing up in Connecticut?