It's What I Do

Join New Canaan Library and the UN Committee of New Canaan for the annual Anita Houston Lecture at 4pm on Sunday November 8th.

This year, we welcome war photographer Lynsey Addario, who will speak about her experience documenting conflicts from Afghanistan to South Sudan.  Her memoir, It’s What I Do, is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the complex lives of others.

 Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist who regularly works for The New York Times, ‬National Geographic, and ‬Time Magazine. Lynsey‬ began photographing professionally for the Buenos Aires Herald in 1996‬‬ with no previous photographic training. In 2000, she traveled to Afghanistan to document life under the Taliban, and has since covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Darfur, South Sudan, and Congo. In 2015, American Photo Magazine‬ named Lynsey one of the five most influential photographers of the past 25 years. She has received the MacArthur Fellowship, and was part of a team of journalists from The New York Times that won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 2009. In 2011, she was awarded the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award for her series, “Veiled Rebellion: Afghan Women.” Lynsey’s recent work includes The Resilience of Children in Conflict for The New York Times Magazine, the plight of Syrian refugees for The New‬ York Times, the civil war in South Sudan, and‬ maternal mortality in Sierra Leone for Time‬. She released a New York‬ Times best-selling memoir, It’s What I Do‬, which chronicles her life as a‬ photojournalist coming of age in the post-9/11 - See more at: http://newcanaanlibrary.org/events/9th-annual-anita-houston-lecture-with-lynsey-addario#sthash.ssXaHWoW.dpuf

Elm Street Books will sell It's What I Do at the event. 

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