PHOTOS: Why Lynsey Addario Has Spent 10 Years Covering Maternal Mortality
Editor's note: This story includes images that some readers may find disturbing.
When photojournalist Lynsey Addario was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship in 2009, she took it as a chance to work on a topic that many photographers and editors shied away from: maternal mortality. Her photos of overcrowded hospitals, bloody delivery room floors and midwives in training illustrate the challenges women face in childbirth and what the global health community is doing to overcome it. The series was featured at this year's Visa Pour L'image festival in Perpignan, France.
Addario has borne witness to some of the most intense global conflicts of her, and and has covered life under the Taliban in Afghanistan and the plight of Syrian refugees. She has been kidnapped twice while on assignment, most recently in Libya in 2011 while covering the civil war.
