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

By Lynsey Addario

In It’s What I Do, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario takes readers on assignment to refugee camps in Darfur, to the rugged hills of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, and through her terrifying kidnapping in Libya. In frank, relatable prose sprinkled with her own photographs, Addario describes decades of travel, work, and her struggle to blend these with her personal life. At the core of the book lies the question Addario asks herself: “Why do you do this work?” (15)—or, perhaps more aptly, how can you do this dangerous, demanding, and psychologically challenging work and still live a good, happy life? Addario’s struggle to find the answer, told through anecdotes set around the world, will make you marvel at both her personal resilience and the vast breadth of human experience.

— Sarah Burriss, Main Library, Charleston, S.C.

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