Week 8 Blog Forum

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It’s what I do by Lynsey Addario is a very captivating novel about balancing a career with your everyday life. Addario's career is working as a freelance war photographer with the New York Times. In this book she mentions her struggles as a photojournalist when it comes to the dangers she faces in foreign countries and with getting her work published after having to face those dangers. One chapter that really resonated with me is chapter 9 titled "The Most Dangerous Place on Earth". In this chapter she returns home after being shot at in Korengal Valley. One of the more frustrating parts of this career is that sometimes those amazing shots she’d risk her life for would not get published. My favorite image of hers from this chapter is the photo of Khalid. A young boy whose face is splattered with blood from shrapnel caused by a bomb dropped by the US Military. Khalid also has such piercing bloodshot eyes that convey such a strong emotion of sadness and grief. I think it was such a powerful image because he's white. It reminds Americans that this is just a child. It changes the perspective for Americans because it reminds them that this could be their own kid.

Khalid, age 6
source: lynseyaddario.com

This photo was considered for a cover for the New York Times at one point because of how captivating this image is. Addario quickly ran into issues though. Her captions didn’t line up with the medic statements from the event. Addario said the injuries on Khalids face was from a bombed dropped by Americans, while the medics were trying to cover up for the US military. Due to all of this miscommunication, Addario wrote a letter directly to her editor explaining that she was there, she risked her life for this photo, so she knows first hand how these injuries happened. Even after all of her efforts Addario ends this chapter with, “The photograph of Khalid never saw the light of day.” (pg. 193)

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