Beautiful, haunting and informative are just a few words one might use to describe Lynsey Addario's work as a photojournalist. Risking life to document crises around the world is a mission most people would shy away from, but Addario runs towards it. In her new book, "It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War," Addario shares her journey covering chaos and suffering, and finding love in the middle of it all.

Women and girls study and recite the Koran in Peshawar

2001

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Opposition troops fire at a government helicopter as it sprays the area with machine-gun fire. The opposition was pushed back east, out of Bin Jawad toward Ras Lanuf, the day after taking Ras Lanuf back from troops loyal to Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi in eastern Libya

March 6, 2011

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Rebels call for volunteers to fight in Benghazi

March 1, 2011

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A rebel fighter consoles his wounded comrade outside the hospital in Ras Lanuf

March 9, 2011

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Rebel fighters and drivers look up into the sky in anticipation of a bomb and incoming aircraft

March 10, 2011

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Transgender prostitutes in the Meatpacking District in New York City

1999

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Transgender prostitutes in the Meatpacking District in New York City

1999

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Scenes of Afghanistan while it was under Taliban rule

May-July 2000

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Scenes of Afghanistan while it was under Taliban rule

May-July 2000

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Scenes of Afghanistan while it was under Taliban rule

May-July 2000

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Afghan women shield their faces at the women's hospital in Kabul

May 2000

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Anti-American demonstration in Peshawar

October 2001

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After the fall of the Taliban in Kandahar, Afghan men sit around outside self-appointed governor Gul Agha's mansion

December 2001

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U.S. Marines take a break to shave in front of one of Saddam's presidential palaces the day Tikrit fell from Republican Guard rule in Iraq

April 14, 2003

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An Iraqi man leans against the wall as he walks along rows of remains of bodies discovered in a mass grave south of Baghdad. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, thousands of bodies were pulled from mass grave sites around Iraq, evidence of the brutal, bloody regime of the former dictator.

May 29, 2003

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Kahindo, 20, sits in her home with her two children born out of rape in the village of Kanyabayonga, North Kivu in eastern Congo.  Kahindo was kidnapped and held for almost three years in the bush by six "interhamwe," who she claims were Rawandan soldiers.

April 12, 2008

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Operation Rock Avalanche in Afghanistan

October 2007

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Operation Rock Avalanche in Afghanistan

October 2007

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Iraqis watch a 3-D movie in Baghdad

2010

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A Somali doctor checks for a heartbeat as 1-year-old Abbas Nishe struggles to fight severe malnutrition in Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia

August 25, 2011

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