Shumita Basu

Chances are, if you've followed reporting on any major war or conflict of the past two decades, you have seen Lindsay Adario's photographs.

She's been to Sudan to cover the ongoing civil war.

She's documented migrants making the dangerous trek through the rainforest in South and Central America.

And now a new National Geographic documentary called Love and War looks at how she approaches this high-risk, crucial work.

I recently spoke with Adario for our latest episode of Apple News in Conversation.

We talked about some of the defining moments from her career, including her time in Ukraine in 2022 when Russia first invaded the country.

One of her photographs became an indelible image of the war.

of a family who had been killed while trying to evacuate along what was supposed to be a safe civilian route.

Adario says she was standing about 20 feet away from the deadly mortar strike that took the family's lives.

It appeared on the front page of The New York Times.

It became one of the images that helped rally global support for Ukraine in the early weeks of the war, spurring countries to send weapons and aid.

The documentary also shows a very different part of her life, coming home from assignments to her husband and two young children, and navigating the tension between covering conflicts and being a parent.

She told me that letting audiences see both sides of her life in this documentary was essential to understanding who she is and why she keeps doing this work.

You can follow Apple News In Conversation in the podcast app to find that episode or come back to the Apple News Today feed tomorrow.

New episodes of In Conversation will be available there on Saturdays, too.

If you want to see some of Adario's photographs, check out our show notes page.

Before we let you go, a few other stories we're following.

A Chicago daycare worker who was detained by ICE at the center where she worked is now free after a judge ruled she was illegally arrested.

Diana Santayana Galeano was apprehended by agents while kids were being dropped off at the facility on Chicago's north side.

A video of her telling ICE officers she had papers while she was forcibly dragged out of the building went viral, prompting widespread outrage and leading local officials to call her arrest and abduction.