Verbatim Supports Lynsey Addario’s Contribution to 'Finding Home' for TIME Magazine

Verbatim, the recently launched commercial assignments agency, is helping to support award-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario’s contribution to the exclusive, yearlong multimedia project for TIME, “Finding Home,” which documents four Syrian refugee mothers and their infant children. See the project at time.com/findinghome.

Addario has been commissioned to handle photography for the project and has been visiting the women in their makeshift homes in refugee camps in Thessaloniki, Greece to capture motherhood in such challenging and uncertain conditions.  The project also features extensive reporting and video by TIME journalists. Images from the report are also featured on four TIME covers, available on newsstands starting on Monday 19th December.

Verbatim is helping to support Finding Home through its own fund, created to finance the personal journalistic projects of its photographers and shine a light on critical world issues.  The fund is made up of a percentage of Verbatim profits from commercial assignments.  Verbatim is one of a few organisations supporting the project for TIME. 

Verbatim, a Getty Images company, is a unique agency providing a dedicated focus for brands and media owners who are looking for new and creative ways to connect with audiences through powerful and evocative content in partnership with the world’s best photojournalists and videographers.  

Addario is an award-winning American photojournalist based in London, UK, who regularly photographs for TIME, National Geographic, and The New York Times.  For the past 20 years, Addario has devoted her career to documenting the toll of war and other humanitarian crises on civilians, with a particular focus on women’s issues. With her coverage of maternal mortality, rape as a weapon of war, and self-immolation in Afghanistan, she has turned an unflinching lens on women who might otherwise be forgotten. Over the past four years, Addario has built a significant body of work as a witness to the exodus from Syria, photographing in Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Greece. Her best-selling book "It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War," is now available in paperback and is soon to become a film directed by Steven Spielberg starring Jennifer Lawrence in the leading role. 

Aidan Sullivan, CEO of Verbatim, said: “When TIME approached Lynsey for this project, we felt compelled to help.  This type of project is exactly what Lynsey is most adept at and precisely why we created this fund.  We are excited to have bought such an important project to fruition and cannot wait to see Lynsey’s exceptional work this week.”