She makes a decision she would often find herself making-not to stay home, not to lead a quiet or predictable life, but 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 memoir It’s What I Do is 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.
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