It's What I Do

Kirkus (starred review):
"A remarkable journalistic achievement from a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship winner that crystalizes the last 10 years of global war and strife while candidly portraying the intimate life of a female photojournalist. Told with unflinching candor, the award-winning photographer brings an incredible sense of humanity to all the battlefields of her life. Especially affecting is the way in which Addario conveys the role of gender and how being a woman has impacted every aspect of her personal and professional lives. Whether dealing with ultrareligious zealots or overly demanding editors, being a woman with a camera has never been an easy task. A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir that is as inspiring as it is horrific."

Publishers Weekly:
"A highly readable and thoroughly engaging memoir.... Addario's memoir brilliantly succeeds not only as a personal and professional narrative but also as an illuminating homage to photojournalism's role in documenting suffering and injustice, and its potential to influence public opinion and official policy."

Booklist:
"Addario has written a page-turner of a memoir describing her war coverage and why and how she fell into--and stayed in--such a dangerous job. This 'extraordinary profession'--though exhilarating and frightening, it 'feels more like a commitment, a responsibility, a calling'--is what she does, and the many photographs scattered throughout this riveting book prove that she does it magnificently."
Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes and Enemies: "It's What I Do is as brilliant as Addario's pictures--and she's the greatest photographer of our war-torn time. She's been kidnapped, nearly killed, while capturing truth and beauty in the world's worst places. She's a miracle. So is this book."
Dexter Filkins, author of The Forever War: "Lynsey Addario's book is like her life: big, beautiful, and utterly singular. With the whole world as her backdrop, Addario embarks on an extraordinary adventure whose overriding effect is to remind of us what unites us all."
Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of The Fall of Baghdad: "A gifted chronicler of her life and times, Lynsey Addario stands at the forefront of her generation of photojournalists, young men and women who have come of age during the brutal years of endless war since 9/11. A uniquely driven and courageous woman, Addario is also possessed of great quantities of humor and humanity. It's What I Do is the riveting, unforgettable account of an extraordinary life lived at the very edge."
John Prendergast, founding director of the Enough Project: "A life as a war photographer has few parallels in terms of risk and reward, fear and courage, pain and promise. Lynsey Addario has seen, experienced, and photographed things that most of us cannot imagine. The brain and heart behind her extraordinary photographic eye pulls us inexorably closer to the center of each story she pursues, no matter what the cost or danger."

Kirkus (starred review):
"A remarkable journalistic achievement from a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship winner that crystalizes the last 10 years of global war and strife while candidly portraying the intimate life of a female photojournalist. Told with unflinching candor, the award-winning photographer brings an incredible sense of humanity to all the battlefields of her life. Especially affecting is the way in which Addario conveys the role of gender and how being a woman has impacted every aspect of her personal and professional lives. Whether dealing with ultrareligious zealots or overly demanding editors, being a woman with a camera has never been an easy task. A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir that is as inspiring as it is horrific."

Publishers Weekly:
"A highly readable and thoroughly engaging memoir.... Addario's memoir brilliantly succeeds not only as a personal and professional narrative but also as an illuminating homage to photojournalism's role in documenting suffering and injustice, and its potential to influence public opinion and official policy."

Booklist:
"Addario has written a page-turner of a memoir describing her war coverage and why and how she fell into--and stayed in--such a dangerous job. This 'extraordinary profession'--though exhilarating and frightening, it 'feels more like a commitment, a responsibility, a calling'--is what she does, and the many photographs scattered throughout this riveting book prove that she does it magnificently."
Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes and Enemies: "It's What I Do is as brilliant as Addario's pictures--and she's the greatest photographer of our war-torn time. She's been kidnapped, nearly killed, while capturing truth and beauty in the world's worst places. She's a miracle. So is this book."
Dexter Filkins, author of The Forever War: "Lynsey Addario's book is like her life: big, beautiful, and utterly singular. With the whole world as her backdrop, Addario embarks on an extraordinary adventure whose overriding effect is to remind of us what unites us all."
Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of The Fall of Baghdad: "A gifted chronicler of her life and times, Lynsey Addario stands at the forefront of her generation of photojournalists, young men and women who have come of age during the brutal years of endless war since 9/11. A uniquely driven and courageous woman, Addario is also possessed of great quantities of humor and humanity. It's What I Do is the riveting, unforgettable account of an extraordinary life lived at the very edge."
John Prendergast, founding director of the Enough Project: "A life as a war photographer has few parallels in terms of risk and reward, fear and courage, pain and promise. Lynsey Addario has seen, experienced, and photographed things that most of us cannot imagine. The brain and heart behind her extraordinary photographic eye pulls us inexorably closer to the center of each story she pursues, no matter what the cost or danger."