lifestyle MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016 FEATURES War photographer and mother, the woman at center of new Spielberg film er parents were hairdressers fortable... egotistical (even). I who prevented the men from doing Zarqawi, out of whose group the in a small town in thought, who would possibly care their work,” Addario wrote later, Islamic State grew. “I do think it’s HConnecticut-so it wasn’t about my life?” for questioning their actions. As they always been a great advantage exactly written in the stars that starters. He is about to tell her story were taken away, Mohammed was being a woman in this job,” she told Lynsey Addario should become one in a new film in which she will be shot by the roadside. It was his AFP during a visit to Paris, where her of the world’s best known war pho- played by Hollywood’s hottest prop- death, and that of her friends and book has just been published in tographers. Even after her Italian- erty, “Hunger Games” star Jennifer fellow photographers Tim French. American family got her a Nikon Lawrence. Hetherington and Chris Hondros “But because I work in the camera for her 13th birthday, she who were killed in Kadhafi’s home- Muslim world I have access to both thought “photographers were crazy Taken hostage town Misrata the following month, women and men. I can go into peo- rich kids” with time on their hands. It will centre on her kidnapping that pushed Addario to put pen to ple’s houses and interview the But fate was about to deal Addario in Libya in March 2011, when she paper. “After I was released I wanted mothers and the sisters,” she said. “I the first of many strange hands that was held with four other New York to do a photo book. I was thinking had tea with Al-Zarqawi’s sisters would take her to Times journalists by soldiers loyal to about the work I had done, and because I was a woman, so I was before September 11 turned the Colonel Kadhafi as large parts of the going through my old work, and it thrown in with the women!” world upside down, and then from country rose up against him. That was then that I found out that Tim Despite having a five-year-old one war zone to the next. nightmare which included beatings, and Chris had been killed,” she said. son, Lukas, to whom she dedicated “I never set out or wanted to cov- death threats and Addario being “I had this sort of moment of her book, Addario has continued to This file photo shows US photographer Lynsey Addario posing for a er war,” the 42-year-old, who has molested by her captors, ended reckoning. I wanted to write... to go work in war zones. photograph in Paris. — AFP continued to cover conflicts since with the journalists being released communicate what I went through “I want people to see how other becoming a mother five years ago, after a few days. Their driver in Libya after my friends were killed. country which most Americans be in so I started to cover wars people live and to be sort of a mes- told AFP. In her book, “It’s What I Do”, Mohammed, who had been “frantic” It just seemed a better way.” As she could not have found on the map, regularly, but it was because the senger, I want to connect the dots, Addario tries to make sense of what with fear as they lingered amid tells it, Addario-who won a Pulitzer became a national obsession as the stories brought me there, not to give people perspective.” For her got her into one of the world’s most sniper fire to photograph rebels prize as part of a New York Times hunt began for Osama bin Laden. because of war itself.” the choice is simple. dangerous professions. Despite sev- along the road to the besieged team in 2009 — is an accidental war “I never set out or wanted to cov- “When I’m covering a humanitar- eral scrapes with death document- town of Ajdabiya, was not so fortu- photographer. It all began after she er war. I started it because I’d been Tea with the Al-Zarqawis ian crisis, human rights abuse or ing wars from Iraq to Congo, “I nate. was sent to Afghanistan in 2000 to working so much in Afghanistan on It was in Iraq where she met the war... you have to be out there (for didn’t think anyone would read the “I didn’t want to be the cowardly photograph life for women under the . It was natural that I sisters of the then leader of Al- it) to be seen by people from the book,” she said. “It felt really uncom- photographer or the terrified girl the Taliban. The following year, a went back there. “Then I wanted to Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab Al- comfort of their home.” — AFP Fashion Week

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