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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life isn't always at risk, even if I'm in a war zone. A lot of these places have areas of calm, so covering war doesn't necessarily mean being shot at all the time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My strength is looking for composition and light, and I think those things come in the quieter times of war or photographing people affected on the margins of war - civilians, refugees; that is where I really excel.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously I am a photographer and I believe in my medium: I do think that powerful photographs can force change. It doesn't take long to look and be engaged in a strong image whereas, with a story, you have to actually sit down and pause and be involved in it.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky because I had parents who have enabled me to do whatever I was passionate about and never held my siblings and me back from anything. But I think a lot of people don't have that experience.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Connecticut, going in and out of New York City, and I worked in the city in the '90s. I was freelancing for the Associated Press, and I fell in love with New York.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that more often than not, people underestimate me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started freelancing for the Associated Press. I had a great mentor there who sort of taught me everything.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's get one thing straight: I am not an adrenaline junkie. Just because you cover conflict doesn't mean you thrive on adrenaline. It means you have a purpose, and you feel it is very important for people back home to see what is happening on the front line, especially if we are sending American soldiers there.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a Western woman in the Middle East, I am often put in a different category. I am sort of like the third sex. I am not treated like a man. I am not treated like a woman. I am just treated like a journalist. That is usually really helpful.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems like, yeah, of course - I always think my work is important, or I wouldn't risk my life for it.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember the moment in which we were taken hostage in Libya, and we were asked to lie face down on the ground, and they started putting our arms behind our backs and started tying us up. And we were each begging for our lives because they were deciding whether to execute us, and they had guns to our heads.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don't go directly to the front line.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020