"I had seen so many depictions of war photographers and war correspondents and I never felt like I was getting, I never felt like it was nuanced enough. You know it was a very one dimensional portrayal of, often, a man. And everything seemed a bit glorified and I just really felt like it was time to show a different perspective of a war correspondent and a war photographer and it felt important that it was a woman."
"There's something really special about speaking to a journalist about this type of project. Because Lynsey knows what it takes to make a good piece of work in that candor, the commitment required, the access required and there was almost instantly a shorthand about that,"
Lynsey Addario has spent over 25 years documenting major conflicts and humanitarian crises, experiencing kidnapping, gunfire, and witnessing deaths while earning Pulitzer Prizes. The National Geographic documentary Love + War traces her career from early assignments through a kidnapping and frontline coverage of the Russia–Ukraine conflict in 2022. The film juxtaposes high-risk fieldwork with domestic routines, showing the difficulties of balancing assignments with family responsibilities, including school pick-ups and raising sons. Co-director and co-producer Chai Vasarhelyi joined the project to highlight Addario’s candor, access, and the shared challenge of managing demanding journalistic commitments alongside motherhood.
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