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The Remarkable Photos Of Lynsey Addario

The award-winning photographer tells the stories behind the profoundly moving images in her new book, Of Love & War — and confesses that she still gets nervous before a new assignment.
Noor Nisa, 18 (right), was in labor and en route to the hospital with her mother and husband, in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, when his car broke down. Lynsey Addario ended up driving Nisa to the hospital, where she delivered a baby girl. November 2009

Even after winning the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and being named a MacArthur Fellow, photojournalist Lynsey Addario still gets nervous when she takes on a new assignment.

"Every story I do, I panic before I go. I wonder if I will be able to make strong pictures, if I will be able to capture the story, if I will be able to make the shot that will, at least, compel people to continue looking," Addario told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly in an interview for All Things Considered.

Addario has just released a new book, Of Love & War. It features over 200 of her photographs, focusing on women in conflict zones from her coverage of wars and humanitarian crises over the past two decades.

She told Kelly that she has learned a lot since she first started photographing.

"I wasn't as adept with the camera [then]. I didn't understand how

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