Festival
Charlottesville 2012:
Lynsey Addario

Moviegoers at Baghdad's first 4-D cinema get an extra thrill from shaking seats and wind machines during a 3-D sci-fi film. During the worst years of violence, families stayed home to watch TV or DVDs. Most cinemas closed, as did this one, though it has plans to expand and reopen. © Linsey Addario / VII

Noor Nisa, 20, pregnant, and her mother, Nazer Begam, 40, who live in Weha village, a four hour drive by car to the clinic in Faizabad, wait along the side of the road to be transported to the hospital, after their car broke down, in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, Nov. 14, 2009. Nisa's water had just broken. Her husband, Shir Mohammad, who had lost two wives and whose first wife had died during childbirth, was determined to get Nisa to the hospital but his borrowed car broke down, so he went to find another vehicle. Nisa, her mother and her husband were eventually taken by the photographer and her interpreter, who happened to be driving by, to the hospital where Nisa delivered a baby girl. © Linsey Addario / VII

Soldiers with the Sudanese Liberation Army sit by their truck while struck in the mud in Darfur, Sudan, August 21, 2004. The SlA is one of the Sudanese rebel groups controlling parts of Darfur.Rebels, and are currently staging a 24-hour boycott of the Nigerian peace talks for Sudan in protest of recent new attacks against civilians in Darfur, which they say killed 75 civilians in six villages..Up to 50,000 people have died since the conflict began in February 2003 and more than a million have fled their homes for fear of attack by the Janjaweed. © Linsey Addario / VII

American soldiers with the 173rd Division, Battle Company, on a battalian-wide mission in the korengal valley to look for caves and weapons caches and known anti-coalition leaders. front left: Sgt. John Clinard, and right, Jay Liske, and other soldiers from Battle Company, carry the body of Sgt Larry Rougle, of Utah, towards the medevac helicopter along the abascar ridge in the mountains of Kunar. Rougle was killed less than an hour prior while their unit, a scout team, was standing guard at the furthest tip of a ridge, and was ambushed by the Taliban. Two other soldiers were shot and wounded: Sgt. Kevin Rice and spc. Carl Vandeberge, and were medevaced out for surgery minutes before. october 23, 2007. © Linsey Addario / VII

Opposition troops take positions as they push west outside of Ras Lanuf after taking the city back from troops loyal to Qaddafi in Ras Lanuf, in Eastern Libya, March 5, 2011. Dangerous confrontations have been going on between opposition forces and those loyal to Col. Qaddafi across Libya. © Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

Lynsey and somini with the sudanese liberation army.
Moviegoers at Baghdad's first 4-D cinema get an extra thrill from shaking seats and wind machines during a 3-D sci-fi film. During the worst years of violence, families stayed home to watch TV or DVDs. Most cinemas closed, as did this one, though it has plans to expand and reopen. © Linsey Addario / VII
Lynsey Addario is a documentarian of conflict and humanitarian crises reporting from some of the worldʼs roughest places — Darfur, the Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. Her work is insightful, intimate and powerful. Addario goes beyond conflict, revealing the very problems and conditions that account for so much of the worldʼs violence.
She has made a career of pursuing the difficult story in the most challenging of places. Addarioʼs work exposes the terror of self-immolation in Afghanistan, the unspeakable pain of rape survivors in the Congo, and the horror of maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. In her essay ʻVeiled Rebellion,ʼ Addario revealed the lives of Afghan women, whose everyday existence is a struggle against tribalism, poverty and war.
Born 1973 in Connecticut, Addario started photographing professionally in 1996 with little training. She has since photographed for The New York Times, National Geographic Magazine, Newsweek, and Time Magazine. In 2009, she was on a team that received the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. She has received many awards, including a George Soros Grant and a MacArthur Fellowship.
EXHIBITION
Veiled Rebellion
June 1 – July 1, 2012
McGuffey Art Center
Charlottesville, VA
USA
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