Rohan Gajjar
First year seminar
Fall’17
Summer Read Paper
“It’s What I Do-A photographer’s life of love and war” by Lynsey Addario is well written and briefly describes not just her life but also the life of the other photographers, journalists, the writers, the local interpreters, the militants and the victims of the war. She briefly describes how she was treated in a male dominant society in the middle east where the women are not allowed to work and they needed to be accompanied by their husband or a male companion all the time if they want to go out. They can’t go to school, neither go to work. They need to stay at home all the time and take care of their children. They can’t even talk eye to eye to any male and if they do so, they would …show more content…
Like, whenever I used to think about war I would think of the soldiers fighting and innocents dying but did not about the post war conditions and what would happen to the families of victims of war. In one of the article by New York Times it stated from her notes that “We are greedy by nature and We always want more than what we have.” She said so because was restlessly taking photos and working 18 hours a day to get the most of photographs. Lynsey has mentioned that she was once physically abused as she was the only female photographer. She has written an incident where the American soldiers told her unpleasant words while pointing their guns at her. She mentioned in the book that she would be the first one to be removed from place of incident while taking photos by the police among all other male photographers. She says that its hard being a woman in the middle east where you limited freedom and you are treated like you are nothing but time changes and in one recent interview she said that "The only time I ever get asked about being a women photographer is when we're talking about a being in a war zone. I just don't think it's necessary, anymore, in a way that it might have been twenty years ago." This suggest a change in the mentality of people with the change in time and change in circumstance (i.e. ending of war).
In the book she talks about her social life which was not very stable as had to travel to Middle east or some African countries very often. She explained her ideology on love and that her family was the important thing. The distance from them and not meeting them for months, increased her love towards her
First year seminar
Fall’17
Summer Read Paper
“It’s What I Do-A photographer’s life of love and war” by Lynsey Addario is well written and briefly describes not just her life but also the life of the other photographers, journalists, the writers, the local interpreters, the militants and the victims of the war. She briefly describes how she was treated in a male dominant society in the middle east where the women are not allowed to work and they needed to be accompanied by their husband or a male companion all the time if they want to go out. They can’t go to school, neither go to work. They need to stay at home all the time and take care of their children. They can’t even talk eye to eye to any male and if they do so, they would …show more content…
Like, whenever I used to think about war I would think of the soldiers fighting and innocents dying but did not about the post war conditions and what would happen to the families of victims of war. In one of the article by New York Times it stated from her notes that “We are greedy by nature and We always want more than what we have.” She said so because was restlessly taking photos and working 18 hours a day to get the most of photographs. Lynsey has mentioned that she was once physically abused as she was the only female photographer. She has written an incident where the American soldiers told her unpleasant words while pointing their guns at her. She mentioned in the book that she would be the first one to be removed from place of incident while taking photos by the police among all other male photographers. She says that its hard being a woman in the middle east where you limited freedom and you are treated like you are nothing but time changes and in one recent interview she said that "The only time I ever get asked about being a women photographer is when we're talking about a being in a war zone. I just don't think it's necessary, anymore, in a way that it might have been twenty years ago." This suggest a change in the mentality of people with the change in time and change in circumstance (i.e. ending of war).
In the book she talks about her social life which was not very stable as had to travel to Middle east or some African countries very often. She explained her ideology on love and that her family was the important thing. The distance from them and not meeting them for months, increased her love towards her