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I'm a very open person, very self-deprecating. I accept my flaws.Collection: Lynsey
Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.Collection: Lynsey
With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren't supposed to get scared.Collection: Lynsey
In so many countries, Western journalists are viewed simply as dollar signs. We're ransom objects.Collection: Lynsey
Photography of any living being, according to Taliban rule, was illegal. So when I went to Afghanistan, immediately I was worried about photographing people. But it was what I wanted: to show what life was like under the Taliban, specifically for women.Collection: Lynsey
I'm not the kind of person to sit and dwell for ages on something that happened. I go through something, I experience it, I try to learn from it, and I move forward.Collection: Lynsey
I'm constantly struggling. You know, the stories that I feel like I could cover, do the work that I want to do and being a mother. That's really where my struggle is - and being a wife and having a life - and for me it's really hard to find that balance. I'm always struggling to find that balance.Collection: Lynsey
I think, for me, personally, I try to be sensitive to issues as I learn about them. And I also try to constantly become not only a certain type of person but also become more in tune to the issues I'm covering. As I get older, I think that things just affect me more.Collection: Lynsey
For me personally, I'm constantly trying to really re-negotiate how I'm going to make a living because I can't make a living solely off editorial. And I'm also still trying to tell long feature stories that are harder and harder to get assigned, you know.Collection: Lynsey
I knew that my interest lied in international stories. I was interested in how women were living under the Taliban, for example.Collection: Lynsey
Since Sept. 11, many of the wars of our generation are in the Muslim world. So as a woman, I have access to 50 percent of the population that my male colleagues don't.Collection: Lynsey
If people really saw what was happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, then they might be marching in the streets to end wars. But you know, I think that no one ever sees because we're not allowed to see, and we're not allowed to publish what we do see. So it's quite difficult.Collection: Lynsey
I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.Collection: Lynsey
Americans are really lovely people - friendly, kind and willing to help you out.Collection: Lynsey
It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn't need to figure out cultural references or what hijab I needed to wear to cover my hair.Collection: Lynsey
I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad.Collection: Lynsey
Family is such a fundamental part of Islam, and women run the family. I had to force myself not to impose my own definition of political and social freedom on women in Islam, and approach each story objectively.Collection: Lynsey
The more I photographed Muslim women, the more I was able to metaphorically strip away the burqas and hijabs, and start chipping away at the profound misconceptions that existed in other parts of the world about these women and their culture.Collection: Lynsey
I try not to get caught up in how our society is so inundated with images, and stay very focused on the work that I'm doing.Collection: Lynsey
Every story takes its toll on me and leaves an impression on me.Collection: Lynsey
My job is to take the pictures, communicate a message, to bring those images to the greater public through whatever publication I'm working for. My job is really to be a messenger, and that's what I've been doing.Collection: Lynsey
Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money.Collection: Lynsey
I didn't want my gender to determine whether or not I could cover breaking news.Collection: Lynsey
I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq - I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 - that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there.Collection: Lynsey
Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.Collection: Lynsey
You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way.Collection: Lynsey
I come from a big family of hairdressers; they didn't read newspapers. I would say, 'I'm off to Afghanistan...' and they would say, 'Have fun!'Collection: Lynsey