lynsey addario was captured twice. thank you for being here today. >> thank you for having me. >> you worked in parts of the world and in situations where women rarely are. what led you to getting into the pursuit of war photography? >> i never set out to be a war photographer. i grew up in connecticut and was the daughter of a hairdresser. and i sort of moved overseas in 2000 and i started covering afghanistan under the taliban. i lived in india, many of the journalists were covering afghanistan, and it was a gradual process. some of the stories drew me into these places that happened to be in conflict zones. >> a lot of people remember the stories of what happened to you. you were kidnapped with a new york city coworker, what happened in that situation? >> it was during the uprising in libya. it was very ad hoc. the fighting with the rebels was coming from the east. gadhafi's troops were moving in from the west. we were positioned behind the rebels but the front line was moving very quickly and the troops came in and

lynsey addario is a journalist who was kidnapped twice while covering war zones. s the author of "it's what i do: a photographer's life of love and war." and lynsey, thank you so much for being here today. >> thank you for having me. >> you know, you've worked in parts of the world and in situations where women rarely are. what led you to getting into the pursuit of war photography? >> i never set out to be a war photographer. i grew up in connecticut and the daughter of hairdressers, actually. i sort of i moved overseas in 2000. i started covering afghanistan under the taliban then. i was living in india. it was very close. many of the journalists there were covering afghanistan. it was a gradual process. some of the stories drew me into these places that happened to be in conflict zones. >> a lot of people remember the stories of what happened to you. in 2011 you were kidnapped with a member of "the new york times" coworkers. what happened in that situation? >> it was during the uprising in libya. it was a popular uphiezing so it was very sort of ad hoc. we'd bee