![]() ![]() ![]() However, the beguiling French photographer she'd entrusted with both her itinerary and her heart turned out to be as dangerously unpredictable as, well, a war. Kogan had not actually planned on shooting the Afghan war alone. She was dead wrong.Within weeks of arriving in Paris, after knocking on countless photo agency doors and begging to be sent where the action was, Kogan found herself on the back of a truck in Afghanistan, her tiny frame veiled from head to toe, the only woman - and the only journalis - in a convoy of rebel freedom fighters. Naively, she figured it would be easy to filter death through the prism of her wide-angle lens. ![]() She wanted to see what a war would look like when seen from up close, to immerse herself in a world where the gun is God. ![]() What if the protagonist in that age-old tale-boy goes to war, comes back a man-were a female? Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan's remarkable debut, is just that: the story of a twenty-two-year-old girl from Potomac, Maryland, who goes off to photograph wars and comes back, four years and one too many adventures later, a woman.In 1988, fresh out of Harvard, Kogan moved to Paris with a small backpack, a couple of cameras, the hubris of a superhero, and a strong thirst for danger. ![]()
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