Lynsey Addario ("Darfur")

Lynsey Addario (www.lynseyaddario.com) is an American photojournalist based in New Delhi, India, where she photographs for The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine. Lynsey began photographing professionally in 1996-with no professional photographic training or studies-and started photographing conflict and humanitarian issues. In 2000, she traveled to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to document life and oppression under the Taliban. She has since covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, and Congo, and shoots features across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. Lynsey's recent bodies of work include 'Veiled ABU SOURUJ, WEST DARFUR. An overhead view of the remains of the burned-out village of Abu Sourouj, which was bombed on the 8 February by the Sudanese government and simultaneously attacked by armed men on camels, horseback and donkeys, otherwise known as Janjaweed, in West Darfur, Sudan, February 28, 2008. The government spate of bombings was in response to an ambush two months prior by rebels from the Justice and Equality Movement, and subsequent intelligence that JEM members were living in these villages and using them as a base. After a period of relative quiet, there has been a great deal of renewed fighting between the Sudanese government with militias loyal to the government and rebel factions, namely JEM. Dozens of civilians in Silean, Sirba, and Abu Sourouj were killed in the attacks around February 8-9th,many others were ...

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