Hello and welcome to the Longform Podcast.
I'm one of the co-hosts, Evan Ratliffe.
It's Polk Week here,
which means that each day we're talking to one of the winners of this year's George Polk Awards for journalism.
Today, I was fortunate to get to talk to Lindsay Adario,
who is to put it simply one of the greatest photojournalists of this era.
Her conflict photography and other work is incredibly acclaimed.
It appears in the New York Times in National Geographic.
She also wrote a memoir some years back that I really recommend.
It's called It's What I Do,
which recounts some of the harrowing experiences she has been through in her work,
some of which come up in this interview.
But today, we were focused on her photograph that won this year's Polk.
It is a devastating photo of civilians in Ukraine killed in a Russian attack.
It was on the front page of the New York Times.
It went all around the world.
It's probably the defining image of the Ukraine war so far.
And we talked about how and why it came about,
what her thought process was around it and really what it means to take a photo like this.
So here's me with Lindsay Adario.