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Jul 2020
32m 20s

The Failing of War Photography

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
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Anastasia Taylor-Lind talks about how she grew up living the life of a modern gypsy, traveling across southern England in the back of a horse-drawn wagon, and how her experiences covering conflicts in Iraq and Ukraine forever changed the way she views storytelling and war photography.   Want More? You can see the photo of the female Peshmerga soldier that la ... Show More
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