Lynsey Addario, Institute Fellow and Award-Winning Photographer

On May 3rd, the Institute presented a special evening program with Institute Fellow and award-winning photographer, Lynsey Addario, in conversation with Executive Director Jane M. Saks.

As an Institute Fellow, Addario was commissioned to create portraits of women and girls who are survivors of gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the internationally traveling photography exhibition, Congo/Women Portraits of War, co-produced by the Institute and Art Works Projects. The exhibition premiered at Columbia College in February 2009, and is currently touring internationally through 2012 (www.congowomen.org).

A MacArthur Fellow and recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for team reporting, Addario photographs for numerous publications, frequently focusing on human rights and women's lives around the world. She is a memberof the prestigious VII Network, and was recently named one of O Magazine's "Power List of 2010."

This was Lynsey Addario's first live public program in Chicago since she and three New York Times colleagues---Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks, and Anthony Shahid---were held captive in Libya for a week in March by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi loyalists.

This highlight reel presents some of the program's prominent moments.

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