Lynsey Addario joins Reportage by Getty Images

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Award-winning photographer Lynsey Addario has joined Reportage by Getty Images.

A frequent contributor to TIME, Addario, 40, has covered conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur and Congo, as well as Afghanistan, where she documented the April 2014 presidential elections for a TIME cover story.

“Lynsey is one of the most respected and accomplished photojournalists of her generation,” says Aidan Sullivan, Getty’s Vice President of Photo Assignments, in a prepared statement. “Her extraordinary thirst for knowledge, her ability to create compelling and visually stunning narratives, her passion, persistence and resilience are all part of what makes her the formidable journalist she is.”

Addario started her career as a freelancer for Associated Press in the late 1990s, photographing conflict and humanitarian issues. She first covered Afghanistan when she was just 26, and has since worked on most major 21st century conflicts. In 2004, while covering the Iraq war, she was abducted in a village outside of Falluja. Seven years later, Muammar Qaddafi loyalists in Libya detained her and colleagues Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks and Anthony Shadid for six days during which they were physically abused.

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epa02623159 A picture made available on 09 March 2011 shows a general view of Swiss artist HR Giger's exhibition 'Traeume und Visionen' (Dreams and Visions) at the Kunsthaus Wien in Vienna, Austria, 08 March 2011. The retrospective of Hans Ruedi Giger work is runs from 10 March until 26 June 2011. EPA/ROBERT JAEGERJohn Moore—Getty Images

At Reportage by Getty Images, Addario joins a roster of photographers that include Tom Stoddart, Paula Bronstein and Benjamin Lowy among many others.

“The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist,” says Addario. “Reportage by Getty Images shows a passion and commitment to this profession, to enabling and promoting our job as communicators, so it is with excitement that I look forward to our collaboration.”

In recent months, she has written for TIME about her experience in Afghanistan. “The first time I visited Afghanistan in May 2000, the country was under Taliban rule. At the time, the Taliban had banned photography of any living being, so I snuck around with my cameras in a bag, visited people in their homes in Kabul and the provinces, and claimed I was photographing destroyed buildings left by over two decades of war in the country […] I met brave women who were teaching in secret schools for girls–education for girls over 10 was also banned under the Taliban–in basements and behind heavy curtains in their homes, and interviewed educated, professional Afghan women who were relegated to a life behind closed doors and without work.”

When she returned last April, she was struck by the violence that has taken hold of Kabul. “The Taliban–who ironically had been responsible for bringing stability to the country less than two decades before—was slaughtering civilians and security forces in the capital.” Yet, she remained hopeful, witnessing tens of thousands of Afghan men cheering for the first woman to run for vice-president. “For a moment, I knew the Afghan people had won. The Taliban could force them inside no longer.”

Aside from TIME, Addario’s work has appeared in the New York Times and National Geographic.


Lynsey Addario is a Reportage by Getty Images photographer based in London and a frequent contributor to TIME.

Olivier Laurent is the editor of TIME LightBox. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @olivierclaurent.


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Afghan women leave a rally for Presidential candidate Zalmai Rassoul and Vice Presidential candidate Habiba Sarabi in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, March 27, 2014. Lynsey Addario for TIME
Afghans line up to register to vote for Presidential elections at a center run by the Afghan Independent Electoral Commission in Shah Shaheed, Kabul, Afghanistan, March 25, 2014.  There has been a surge in Taliban attacks aimed at derailing elections leading up to voting day in Afghanistan, and the future stability of the country is unclear. (Credit: Lynsey Addario for Time Magazine)
Afghan men make photo IDs for voter registration at a center run by the Afghan Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in Shah Shaheed, Kabul, Afghanistan, March 25, 2014. Lynsey Addario for TIME
The charred remains of the guest house for Roots of Peace, a U.S.-based aid group working in Afghanistan, the day after the house was attacked by the Taliban, in Kabul,  March 28, 2014.  The Taliban has declared it will try to derail presidential elections, and there has been a surge in Taliban attacks in the days leading up to voting day in Afghanistan. (Credit: Lynsey Addario for Time
The guest house for Roots of Peace, a U.S.-based aid group working in Afghanistan, was attacked by Taliban in Kabul on March 27, 2014. Lynsey Addario for TIME
Afghan Security forces stand guard on the perimeter of an ongoing attack at the election headquarters in Kabul,  Afghanistan, March 29, 2014.  The Taliban has declared it will try to derail presidential elections, and there has been a surge in Taliban attacks in the days leading up to voting day in Afghanistan. (Credit: Lynsey Addario for Time Magazine)
Afghan Security forces stand guard on the perimeter of an ongoing attack at the election headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 29, 2014. Lynsey Addario for TIME
Afghan women attend a rally for Presidential candidate Dr. Zalmay Rassoul and Vice President Habiba Sourabi, in a stadium in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, March 27, 2014.  There has been a surge in Taliban attacks aimed at derailing elections leading up to voting day in Afghanistan, and the future stability of the country is unclear. (Credit: Lynsey Addario for Time Magazine)
Afghan women attend a rally for Presidential candidate Zalmai Rassoul and Vice President Habiba Sarabi in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, March 27, 2014. Lynsey Addario for TIME
Afghan Security forces stand guard outside the guest house for Roots of Peace, a U.S.-based aid group working in Afghanistan, the day after the house was attacked by the Taliban, in Kabul,  March 28, 2014.  The Taliban has declared it will try to derail presidential elections, and there has been a surge in Taliban attacks in the days leading up to voting day in Afghanistan. (Credit: Lynsey Addario for Time
The guest house for Roots of Peace the day after the house was attacked by Taliban in Kabul, March 28, 2014. Lynsey Addario for TIME
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Afghan Presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani holds a rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 24, 2014. Lynsey Addario for TIME
Maternal Health;Typhoon Hayien; save the children
Midwife Norina Malate delivers the baby of Analyn Pesado, 18, as Analyn's partner, Ryan Bacate, 21, looks on at the side of the road en route to the nearest clinic in Tolosa, outside of Tacloban, in the Philippines, Jan. 11, 2014.Lynsey Addario
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Ryan jr. the baby of Analyn Pesado ,on his first day home in Telegrafo, Jan.12, 2014.Lynsey Addario
Maternal Health;Typhoon Hayien; save the children
Damaged houses in Palo outside of Tacoloban. Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines on November 8, 2013, and killed some six thousand people, and affected some 14.1 million others, destroying their homes, livelihoods, and displacing families. There is an estimated 230,000 pregnant women in the affected area, with much of the medical infrastructure destroyed, Jan 13, 2014.Lynsey Addario
Maternal Health;Typhoon Hayien; save the children
Ryan jr. the baby of Analyn Pesado, is surrounded by cousins and family on his first day home in Telegrafo, a small town outside of Tacloban, Jan.12, 2014.Lynsey Addario
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Analyn Pesado returns home with her new baby, in Telegrafo, Philippines, Jan. 12, 2014. Lynsey Addario
Maternal Health;Typhoon Hayien; save the children
Displaced Philippine mother and child living inside the former gym in the stadium in Tacloban, Jan.13, 2014.Lynsey Addario
Maternal Health;Typhoon Hayien; save the children
The cleaning up of the debris and destruction near Palo, outside of Tacloban, more than two months after Typhoon Haiyan, Jan. 13, 2014. Lynsey Addario

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