It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War

Gritty Single-Minded Determination from Cover to Cover Bernard Goldbach As a former military pilot, I've flown photojournos and network television crews into remote areas where they survived hostile fire. Lynsey Addario's story suggests she would have been aboard one of my missions. Her memoir resonates authenticity through and through. She writes with an impassioned honesty that instills credibility to the stories she shares.I wonder if Lynsey realises the sort of adrenaline rush that empowered a lot of her work. She endures har. Addario's perspective is an interesting and valuable one. However Addario's perspective is an interesting and valuable one. However, there is something disengaged about her style that left me wanting to feel more connected to her story, and at times it was a challenge to stay motivated to read. The desire she has for the reader to see her work and the work of her fellow journalists as significant (which it is!) and their sacrifice as powerful (which it is!) had a tone of the desperate martyr to it at times. The right blend . " How often have we read the work of an excellent journalist only to be shocked by a photograph from We all grasp the notion that "a picture is worth a thousand words." How often have we read the work of an excellent journalist only to be shocked by a photograph from the scene that utterly improves our understanding of what we've read? Somebody had to go there with a camera to capture that picture -- to show our eyes what they were seeing with their eyes -- to grant us the vital context a conflict-photographer can provide. Lynsey Addario is one of those peop

MacArthur Genius Grant winner Lynsey Addario's relentless pursuit of complex truths drive this heart-pounding and inspirational memoir of a photographer's life. Watching uprisings unfold and people fight to the death for their freedom, Addario understands she is documenting not only news but also the fate of society. In the man who will become her husband, she finds at last a real love to complement her work, not take away from it, and as a new mother she gains an even more intensely personal understan