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Profile: Lynsey Addario

12/03/2022

Lynsey Addario

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The photo-journalist documenting suspected war crimes in Ukraine.

She took the defining image of the war in Ukraine so far: a family killed by a mortar shell as they tried to flee. Mark Coles profiles the photographer reporting from the conflict.

She took the defining picture of Putin’s war so far: a family killed by Russian troops as they tried to flee to safety.  The US photojournalist, Lynsey Addario, has reported from almost every major conflict in the twenty-first century, and now she is on the ground in Ukraine, documenting suspected war crimes.

Lynsey Addario - who reported on the Taliban before most of the western world knew who they were - has borne witness to war, humanitarian disaster and the worst effects of climate change. She has been kidnapped twice, but still keeps returning to conflict zones. 

Mark Coles profiles the award-winning photographer whose images continue to make the front pages.

Credits:
Lynsey Addario, talking to CBS Evening News’ Norah O’Donnell
Sky News’ Stuart Ramsay and his team being attacked in Ukraine

Producers: Sally Abrahams and Ellie House
Editor: Damon Rose
Studio Manager: Neil Churchill

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