Lynsey Addario

Known for: conflict photojournalism for The New York Times and National Geographic

Lynsey Addario has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and South Sudan for The New York Times and National Geographic, and was kidnapped twice — once in Iraq in 2004 and once in Libya in 2011 while covering the civil war there. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009. Her memoir It's What I Do (2015) was a New York Times bestseller and has been widely assigned in photojournalism programs.