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MacArthur Genius Offer victor Lynsey Addario's relentless pursuit of complicated truths drive this heart-pounding and inspirational memoir of your photographer's life. Lynsey Addario is just finding her way as a young shooter when the events of Sept 11, 2001, change the world. One of the few photojournalists with experience in Afghanistan, she gets the decision to come back and cover the American invasion. She makes a decision she'll often find herself making--not to stay home, not to lead a tranquil or predictable life, but to set out across the world, face the chaos of turmoil, and make a name for herself. Addario finds in photography a way to travel with a purpose, and It's What I Do is the story of this singular calling--how it shapes and drives her life and exactly how it changes the lives of others. She catches nearly every major theater of war of the twenty-first century and from it creates a historical record of real truth on the international conflicts which have made and remade our world. She photographs the Afghan people before and after Taliban reign, the civilian casualties and misinterpreted insurgents of the Iraq Conflict, and the used up villages and the countless dead in Darfur. She exposes a culture of assault against ladies in the Congo and says the riveting inside history of her headline-making kidnapping by pro-Qaddafi pushes in the Libyan civil war. As a woman photojournalist determined to be taken as significantly as her male peers, Addario fights her way into a children' team of an occupation. Rather than choose between her personal life and career, Addario learns to strike a required balance. In the person who will become her partner, she finds finally a real love to match her work, not take away from it, as a new mom she gains an even more intensely personal knowledge of the fragility of life. Viewing uprisings unfold and people fight to the loss of life for their freedom, Addario understands she actually is documenting not only reports but also the fate of society. It's What I Do is more than only a snapshot of life on leading lines--it is see to the individuals cost of war.