War & Peace
Hello from Atlanta,
Many of you would have seen Lynsey Addario's photographs from war zones across the world. She's won the Pulitzer Prize for her powerful images which have been published in the New York Times and National Geographic. She currently has an exhibition in New York.
Lynsey's career has been defined by the post-9/11 wars and the messiness of US foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere. She's got a fascinating and wry take on being an American photographer, often embedded with American troops but with a healthy dose of skepticism of American foreign policy.
Lynsey Addario has written lovingly about her unique path to news reportage in her memoir It's What I do: a Photographer's story of Love and War. Her parents are hairdressers and owned a salon in Connecticut. When she was a child her dad fell in love with the salon colorist, Bruce, and left her mom. (Bruce and her dad are still together forty years later.)The experience and impact on her family, she tells me in this week's episode, allowed her to approach vulnerable people in fragile spaces with huge amount of empathy.
I thought it would be a good idea to avoid talking about the election entirely!
Enjoy,
Robyn
