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

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

lynsey addario

Jul 26, 2016

Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist who regularly photographs for The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine. She has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, and the Congo, and has received numerous awards, including the MacArthur Genius Grant and the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting.

It's What I Do follows a course unavoidable for Addario"from her first camera and the pictures it inspired, to early years as a street photographer and the inspiration she found in the work of SebastiÃ£o Salgado. Photography becomes a way for her to travel with a purpose"a singular ambition that shapes and drives her.

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