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The Failing of War Photography
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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Jul 28, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
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.
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You can see the photo of the female Peshmerga soldier that launched Anastasia’s career on her website along with many of her other projects.
Read Anastasia’s essay “The Most Frightening Thing About War” here.
Check out the story Peter Gwin and Anastasia collaborated on about riding Arabian horses in Oman.
You can watch Anastasia’s TED talk “Fighters and Mourners of the Ukrainian Revolution.”
Also explore:
See our story on soldiers using art to reveal the trauma of war and learn about today’s battlefields, where more women than ever are on the front lines of armed conflict and as peacekeepers in the world’s hot spots.
If you like what you hear and want to support more content like this, please consider a National Geographic subscription. Go to natgeo.com/explore to subscribe today.
Want More?
You can see the photo of the female Peshmerga soldier that launched Anastasia’s career on her website along with many of her other projects.
Read Anastasia’s essay “The Most Frightening Thing About War” here.
Check out the story Peter Gwin and Anastasia collaborated on about riding Arabian horses in Oman.
You can watch Anastasia’s TED talk “Fighters and Mourners of the Ukrainian Revolution.”
Also explore:
See our story on soldiers using art to reveal the trauma of war and learn about today’s battlefields, where more women than ever are on the front lines of armed conflict and as peacekeepers in the world’s hot spots.
If you like what you hear and want to support more content like this, please consider a National Geographic subscription. Go to natgeo.com/explore to subscribe today.
Released:
Jul 28, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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