Shutterbabe adventures in love and war5/21/2023 Chapter 1), who has the distinction of accompanying her to the Afghan war - and being the first beneficiary of what a reviewer termed Kogan's penchant for "strategic screwing." She began using the medium as a form of therapy, shooting at strip clubs and incorporating raw close-ups of men frequenting Boston's sex district into her master's thesis on men and violence.Īfter graduating, she decided to take her camera to war. By the time she took up photography, the diminutive Harvard English major had been mugged or attacked five times. Kogan dove into photojournalism with a vengeance. "That 22-year-old girl going out into the world thought she was 'Shutterbabe, defeater of all evil.' " "My idea was that 'Shutterbabe' is a superhero - like Superman walking out of a phone booth," she said. The book's title has been misconstrued, too. That's my framing device, and in between there are a lot of pictures." It starts with the loss of an egg in (an Afghan) minefield and it ends with the birth of a child. "This book is actually about my personal journey to motherhood. "People speak as if I was writing a tome on how journalism should be done," Kogan said in an interview recently in San Francisco. Chapters are named for men in her life (including her young son Jacob), and the first finds Kogan, at age 22, in dire need of tampons as she slogs through knee-high snow with mujahedeen soldiers in the mountains above Kabul.
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