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I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

- Lynsey Addario
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The Taliban rose to power in 1996, vowing stability and an end to the violence raging across the country between warring mujahedeen factions, and to implement rule by Sharia law, or strict Islamic rule.

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.

I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq - I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 - that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there.

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

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.

By the time the United States went to war with Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, I had made three trips to the country. I covered the fall of the Taliban in Kandahar and have been returning routinely for the past 14 years.

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.

I was undeterred by the danger of traveling as a single American woman through Taliban-governed land. I believed in the stories I wanted to tell, the stories I felt were underreported, and I was convinced that that belief would keep me alive.

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.

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I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.