Photojournalist Lynsey Addario on showing the face of war

Photojournalist Lynsey Addario has been making news herself lately: she recently took what many consider to be a war defining photograph–that of a church worker, a mother and her children killed by a mortar as they tried to flee the Russian bombardment outside Kyiv. It’s a photograph that resonated around the world, showing clearly the cost civilians are paying for the war in Ukraine.  Working regularly for the New York Times, Addario has been documenting the cost of war—particularly for women and children for over 20 years. in Afghanistan, Darfur, Iraq, Congo, Libya, Syria, and now Ukraine, Addario has insisted that we look and understand what “collateral damage” actually means. We’re revisiting my 2016 interview with Addario in which she discusses what compels her work, her ability to interact and document women in Muslim countries, how she deals with her own fears, her kidnapping in Libya, and the effects of motherhood on her work.