Rather than choose between her personal life and her career, Addario learns to strike a necessary balance. She exposes a culture of violence against women in the Congo and tells the riveting story of her headline-making kidnapping by pro-Qaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war.Īs a woman photojournalist determined to be taken as seriously as her male peers, Addario fights her way into a boys club of a profession. She photographs the Afghan people before and after the Taliban reign, the civilian casualties and misunderstood insurgents of the Iraq War, as well as the burned villages and countless dead in Darfur. She decides to set out across the world, face the chaos of crisis, and make a name for herself.Īddario finds a way to travel with a purpose. One of the few photojournalists with experience in Afghanistan, she gets the call to return and cover the American invasion.

Lynsey Addario was just finding her way as a young photographer when September 11 changed the world. It s her work, but it s much more than that: it s her singular calling. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the complex lives of others. War photographer Lynsey Addario s memoiris the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life.

that] offers insight into international events and the challenges faced by the journalists who capture them.

It's What I Do by Lynsey Addario