The Failing of War Photography

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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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 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/exploremore to subscribe today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I grew up horse drawn.
0:03.5	So my parents lived in a boatop wagon,
0:07.2	like a boatop Gypsy wagon with a canvas covering
0:10.8	that was pulled by our cart horse blue.
0:13.7	And they were moving from the east coast of the UK
0:18.3	to the southwest, mostly with the apple picking season.
0:22.6	That's photographer Anastasia Taylor Lind.
0:26.1	She's probably best known for her assignments
0:28.4	in conflict zones.
0:30.1	Ukraine, Iraq, Gaza, Afghanistan, Myanmar.
0:35.4	So how does someone raised in a horse drawn wagon
0:38.6	end up as a photographer documenting wars?
0:42.4	I'm Peter Gwynn, and you're listening
0:44.4	to overheard at National Geographic.
0:46.6	And for more than a year, you've heard me introduce this
0:49.4	as a show where we eavesdrop on the wild conversations
0:52.4	we have here at Nat Geo.
0:54.9	A lot of those conversations are about scientific expeditions
0:58.4	or other interesting questions we're chasing after.
1:01.8	But some of the astonishing stories we hear
1:04.1	are about our contributors and their personal journeys.
1:08.1	So today, we've got something a little different.
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