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Lynsey Addario

    Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist whose work has fundamentally reshaped our understanding of global conflicts. With unwavering courage, she focuses on humanitarian crises and human rights abuses across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. Her photography delves deeply into the lives of those most affected by war, offering a powerful and urgent testament to human resilience in the face of oppression. Through her lens, Addario reveals the complex realities of our world, compelling us to confront uncomfortable truths.

    Lynsey Addario
    To je to, co dělám
    It's What I Do. A Photographer's Life of Love and War
    It's What I Do
    Of Love & War
    • Of Love & War

      • 271 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and New York Times bestselling author, a stunning and personally curated selection of her work across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa Lynsey Addario has captured audiences with her disarming and compelling photographs and her uncanny ability to personalize even the most remote corners of our world. Here, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist returns with a stunning collection of more than two hundred of her photographs from across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. In her distinctively powerful dramatic style, Addario documents life in Afghanistan under the Taliban, the stark truth of sub-Saharan Africa, and the daily reality of women in the Middle East, as well as much more. Featuring revelatory essays from esteemed writers, such as Dexter Filkins and Suzy Hansen, and public figures, like Christy Turlington, Of Love & War is an utterly compelling and singular statement about the world, and all its inescapable chaos and conflict, from one of the most brilliant and influential journalists working today in any medium"--

      Of Love & War2018
      4.7
    • Americká fotoreportérka Lindsey Addariová se ve své práci zaměřuje především na válečné konflikty a otázky lidských práv, zejména na úlohu žen v tradiční společnosti. Lindsey Addariová s lehkostí, krásou a upřímností dokumentuje životy druhých v extrémních podmínkách. Stává se svědkem nejrůznějších osudů, přihlíží ztrátám na životech během válečných konfliktů. Fotografování pro ni není jen práce, ale i poslání. Jako jedna z mála žen se prosadila v této profesi a ve výhradně mužské společnosti. Ve svých memoárech popisuje také svůj osobní život a snahu najít rovnováhu mezi svým profesním a osobním životem, jehož křehkost vnímá jako matka mnohem intenzivněji.

      To je to, co dělám2018
      4.4
    • It's What I Do

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      A MacArthur Genius Grant and Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist documents her relentless pursuit of complex truths in the years after September 11, describing her witness to the American invasion of Afghanistan and the lives of people before and after Taliban reign. Simultaneous

      It's What I Do2015
      4.5