Photojournalist Lynsey Addario on balancing work and family — when work is a war zone

Sam Fragoso

December 02, 2025 / 11:16 am

For 25 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario has covered nearly every major conflict and humanitarian crisis of her generation, from Syria to Sudan to Ukraine. The dangers she encounters on assignment are increasingly serious; the Committee to Protect Journalists estimates that 2024 was the deadliest on record for journalists.

"We're in an era where journalists are routinely targeted and routinely killed," she says. "Journalism is equated with death now, in a way that it wasn't when I first started out."

Over the years, Addario's been kidnapped twice , thrown out of a car on a highway in Pakistan, and been ambushed, on two differen

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