presentation of my conversations with three interesting photographers, sally mann, russell james and lynsey addario. >> you take the picture and you are just so fervently pray that you got the tenth of a second that you thought you got. and so many times you don'tment you get the either side of the one that hoped you got. so really it's when you see the negative that the moment happens. and there's nothing like that moment. i said it other times, it's almost sexual in its intensity. you're just ecstatic. >> when i'm photographing a personal be it an aboriginal elder, a member of the seminole tribe of florida, there is a beauty about the photograph. an when you're on the other side. >> it is, it is the strangest thing but it's so powerful and engaging, i get lost in that moment. >> i'm always very leary of photographing the same scene that the audience,ed reader has seen so many times before. because i dnted want to be in a situation, take photos, send them home and have the viewer say god, i've seen this so many times before and just ask the page without asking the question god what is going on the

. ♪ charlie: lynsey addario is here. a pulitzer prize-winning photographer and is credited with the way we view conflict zones. for 15 years, she has documented human rights issues and the plight of women. in 2011, she was kidnapped with three colleagues in libya while covering the civil war. the experience inspired her to write her first memoir. it's called "it's what i do. lynseyeased to have addario back at the table. tell me about writing a memoir. lynsey: it was an interesting process. after we were released from captivity, i was approached by several literary agents, and my first priority was to do a photo book. i had never done a book of my photographs. i really wanted to focus on that. i was meeting with aperture. we had all of my photos out on the table. that to e-mail colleagues had been killed in libya. ofdenly, i was sort overwhelmed by all of what had gone on in libya. it all just sort of hit me in that moment. i said, i don't want to spend the next year looking at photos of the next decade. i wanted to writ