Margaret Moth’s life could have been ripped straight from a pulp fiction novel. The New Zealand-born photojournalist spent her youth dropping acid and skydiving before traversing the globe to blaze trails for women in the world of war photography. Rising through the ranks at CNN, she covered war zones in Kuwait, Georgia, Bosnia, Lebanon, the Congo, Somalia, Chechnya, Gaza, and Sarajevo — where she took a bullet to the face that permanently limited her ability to speak but barely slowed her down. Unfazed by gunfire and explosions, she saw battlefields as breeding grounds for the kind of human drama that was worth risking any amount of physical safety to document.
