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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
You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don't open fire on you.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different talents and different desires.
- Overwhelmed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.
- Devastation
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day I am at home, watching dramatic images of Iraqi Yazidis fleeing for their lives being aired nonstop on 24-hour news channels. Days later, I am there, staring at tens of thousands of displaced Iraqis and feeling a 35-millimeter frame cannot capture the scope of devastation and heartbreak before me.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, it's so much about doing your homework, going into a situation, getting to know the subject, making them feel comfortable, getting intimate access, getting access to all different aspects of people's lives so that I am essentially telling an entire story and not just a single image.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when I started going to war zones and started covering humanitarian issues, it became a calling because I realized I had a voice, and I can give people without a voice a voice... and now it is something that sits inside of me every day.
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of women act like it's the easiest decision, and I'm just going to have a baby and put my life on hold and not be worried about it. Well, I was worried.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never think of myself as a role model.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don't go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.
- Daily Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm doing a story on how a single mother copes in a refugee camp, I'll go to her tent; I'll follow her when she's working, see what her daily life is like, and try to pack that into one composition, with nice light, in one frame.
- Endured
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- Nov 07, 2020
I interviewed dozens and dozens of African women who had endured more hardship and trauma than most Westerners even read about, and they ploughed on. I often openly cried during interviews, unable to process this violence and hatred towards women I was witnessing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a photographer who is constantly in violent, bloody situations where the instinct is to turn away, I am always trying to figure out how to make people not turn away.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020