Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War

by Deborah Copaken Kogan (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.25

  On a wintery night in February 1989, 22 year-old Deborah Copaken Kogan entered Afganistan as the only female in a group of Afghan freedom fighters. She had come to photograph the Soviet pull-out. This is a memoir of a young woman finding and fighting her way through the war zones of the world. Told with humour, it tells how one woman fought her way onto battlefields, and the danger, pain, truths and love she discovered there.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $17.31

  On a wintry night in February 1989, 22-year-old Deborah Copaken Kogan is the lone female among a group of Afghan freedom fighters ridiing through the Hindu Kush mountains. In my lap, hopping atop my thighs as the truck lurches, as my body shivers, sits a sturdy canvas Domke bag filled with Nikons and Kodachrome film, which I'm hoping to use to photograph the pullout of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Actually, I have no idea how to photograph a Soviet pullout. Though this is my second story as a photojournalist, I'm still not clear on what it is photojournalists actually do in a real war. What follows is a humorous memoir of a young woman finding and fighting her way through the war zones of the world. It is a coming-of-age story about how one woman fought her way on to battlefields, and the danger, pain, truths and love she discovered there.