In Lynsey Addario’s book It’s What I Do, tells hers experience as a woman entering a man’s world of photojournalism. Because of this she has had to work hard in her photography, yet one of the things that makes her photography so great is she truly tries to connect with the people she is photographing so the story that comes through her pictures can impact the reader more than it might have originally. I can understand her sense of drive and duty towards photographing war-zones mainly because she is driven with the need to photograph people’s lives in these situations and tell their stories. While I understand it, I think you have to have extreme amounts of courage to even think about going into a war zone to begin with let alone do it to gather pictures of complete strangers. Since she continues to go to war zones and take pictures of some of the hardest topics to photograph, let alone discuss, makes her pictures have such an impact and major contribution to journalism be...
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