Now obviously there is going to be a lot of conflict in the book Its What I do, it is a book about conflict photo journalism after all. However, one might not expect that there would be conflict within the author herself. Never the less, that is exactly the case for Lynsey Addario, especially when it comes to her capturing images of refugees in Darfur. She runs into the moral conflict of making money off of images that depict people who are desperate.
Lynsey herself has struggled with money over the years trying to pursue her passion but she is still brought to guilt when she thinks about what she is really doing; making a profit by showing people suffering. This moral conflict of profiting off of others suffering is not one felt exclusively by the author, rather many people often deal with the same conflict.
The conflict all comes down to using people for what you want and I can just about guarantee every single one of you, at one point in your life, has done this. It is a very easy thing to do because it is human nature to put self-interest first, even at the expense of others. Now sometimes this can be small actions and other times more drastic actions.
For example, it could be you not waiting to hold the door for the person behind you and then later regretting it because you let your interest of getting to where you were going outweigh your caring for the other person. A more extreme example would be seeing someone holding on the edge of a cliff about to fall and not helping them because you don’t want to get dirty. Now it is often not such extremes, but never the less, it is a common conflict that even myself experience and by including it in the book, Lynsey better relates with her audience.
