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My job as a photographer and as a photo journalist is 

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to try to bring the brutality of war 

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back home to a reader in a way that they can enter. I 

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don't want them to look at a picture and say, oh, that. 

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That's horrible and turn the page. I want them to stop, 

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I want them to say, wow, what's happening? Oh, it's a 

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mother and her child. All these small moments 

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can add up and they sit in people's minds. If you make 

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them not beautiful enough, but if you make them 

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accessible enough [ MUSIC ] My 

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name is Lynsey Addario and I'm a photo journalist. 

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[ MUSIC ] I 

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think that we have a responsibility, as human beings, 

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to, to care about how other people live. Especially. 

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Actually, women live with great injustices and they do 

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not have the luxuries that we have here in America. 

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Where I am a women, I am born it is a given I will 

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have a house, a roof over my hear, I will have running 

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water, electricity, education. I can decide what I wanna 

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do for a living. That is astonishing, because for most 

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women in the world, they will never. Never ever have 

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one of those things. I can't take that for granted. So 

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many women are casualties of their birthplace. They 

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have nothing when they were born and would have 

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nothing when they died. They survived off the land and 

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through their dedication to their families, their children 

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I started covering the war in Congo in 2006. I 

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was able to spend two weeks, literally, every single 

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day, meeting with, interviewing and photographing 

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women. Rape victims. It 

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was incredible to me, because not only were they 

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brave. To go on camera and talk about what 

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had happened to them. But a lot of them were you 

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know, they took a stand and they said yes, take my 

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picture because I want to try and help other women 

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and I want to try and give this strength to other 

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to come forward and to not feel like they're victims. It 

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was very clear to me that. No matter what hand you're 

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dealt in a lot of these places you have to get on with it 

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and you just have to move on. And so that I used a lot 

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in my own experiences. For example, in Libya, and I 

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remember very distinctly in Libya being tied up, 

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blindfolded and punched in the face. And I remember 

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there was a moment where I just sat there and I was 

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like. **** and I just started crying. And then I thought, 

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you know, pull yourself together. I mean you can 

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handle this. This is like, It's a lot worse for a lot of 

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other women. So I used their stories as a source of 

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strength. Yes 

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I would definitely say i'm still optimistic. It's pretty easy 

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to get overwhelmed by everything we see in the news 

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and all the killing and death, and. But war have been 

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around since the beginning of time. I mean, we've 

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always been at war. If anything, I've taken with 

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me the optimism that I see in people in those war 

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zones. [ MUSIC ] And I think it's very important to do 

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that. And, and to listen to them, and to look at them. If 

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they live 24 hours a day under bombardment and they 

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still have hope, that one day the world will end. How 

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can I as an outsider say you know what? We're never 

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going to have peace. You know, I just don't think it's 

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fair. That's not my job. My job is to take that optimism 

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and bring it out there.