https://padlet.com/rebeccakpepper/lyndseyaddario Made with ♥ en-us 2020-02-07 04:09:48 UTC 2020-02-07 05:13:46 UTC hello@padlet.com rebeccakpepper https://padlet.com/rebeccakpepper/lyndseyaddario/wish/441985777 "Openness to experience can provide creative individuals with constant sources of questions, ideas, and problems. Openness to experience also characterized by the willingness to try something new and different." (Starko, p. 108). Although Lyndsey Addario did not begin her career in photojournalism, her experiences opened new doors for her and helped her to access more experiences that she hadn't planned for. With a background in international relations, her knowledge of languages including Spanish and Italian, and the desire to discover other cultures, Addario lived in Argentina—where she discovered photojournalism's power to covey ideas and emotions—and lived in India and Afghanistan where she continued to explore other cultures. After the World Trade Center Attacks of September 11th, Addario noted that because of her prior experience in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, "it seemed natural to go back to this place I was quite familiar with".  Addario's continued openness to experiences allowed her to try things that were new and different and forced her to open herself emotionally to understand the lives of the people she encounters in places of conflict.

]]> 2020-02-07 04:13:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccakpepper/lyndseyaddario/wish/441985777 rebeccakpepper https://padlet.com/rebeccakpepper/lyndseyaddario/wish/441990284 Starko notes that "creative people must be willing to take risks" and be willing to be unsuccessful sometimes in order to become successful (p. 112). In Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas are Born, Denise Shekerjian notes that "risk makes people nervous [but] creative work requires an element of risk-taking...of having to go beyond the sure footing of experience and expertise" (p. 16). For Addario, she faces two types of risk: the risk of being in-over-her-head professionally as she starts out trying to convince people to hire her when she has little experience, and the risk to her safety as she works to document dangerous situations around the world.

As a woman working in areas of the world where women's rights are restricted, and working within war zones, Addario constantly takes risks while on assignment in order to document the events that are happening and show the truth through photography. While on assignment for the New York Times in Libya, Addario and her fellow journalists were kidnapped and as a woman, Addario's situation differed from that of her male colleagues. She documents her experiences in her book, It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War, and in this podcast and article from NPR.]]> 2020-02-07 04:37:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccakpepper/lyndseyaddario/wish/441990284 rebeccakpepper https://padlet.com/rebeccakpepper/lyndseyaddario/wish/441993343 Originality is an essential element in creativity, to "express ideas that are off the beaten path" (Starko, p. 112) and "tackle the same set of problems...using different approaches" (Shekerjian, p. 15). Addario's photographs depict the same places and conflicts as other photojournalists, but her unique perspective, experiences, empathy, and relationships with the people imbue her photographs with new and original ideas. By documenting experiences from a new perspective, like showing victims of rape in a new light, showing the joy of a wedding ceremony in a Syrian refugee camp, the struggle of a woman in labor, or showing the everyday lives of female American soldiers living on bases, Addario creates original works that resonate with viewers and share new stories of the people and places they document.]]> 2020-02-07 04:54:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccakpepper/lyndseyaddario/wish/441993343 rebeccakpepper https://padlet.com/rebeccakpepper/lyndseyaddario/wish/441995235 2020-02-07 05:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccakpepper/lyndseyaddario/wish/441995235