Not images of war. But there are striking moments to be found in conflict zones – moments of beauty, even – just as much as there are anywhere else. From photojournalist Lynsey Addario's book Of Love and War:
Two women walk through a sandstorm in Bahai, Chad, along the border with Darfur, Sudan, August 2004. © Lynsey Addario
One hundred nine African refugees from Gambia, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Guinea, and Nigeria are rescued by the Italian navy from a rubber boat in the sea between Italy and Libya, October 2014. © Lynsey Addario
An Iraqi woman walks through a plume of smoke rising from a massive fire at a liquid gas factory as she searches for her husband in Basra, Iraq, May 2003. © Lynsey Addario
Noor Nisa, eighteen (right), in labor and stranded with her mother in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, November 2009. Her husband’s first wife died during childbirth, so he was determined to get her to the hospital, a four-hour drive from their village. His borrowed car broke down and I ended up taking them to the hospital, where Noor Nisa delivered a baby girl. © Lynsey Addario
A man walks through a forest in Rethung Gonpa village outside of Trashigang, in east Bhutan, August 2007. © Lynsey Addario
Iraqis watch a 3-D movie in Baghdad, February 2010. © Lynsey Addario
Soldiers with the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army sit by their truck, waiting for it to be repaired, as a sandstorm approaches in Darfur, Sudan, August 2004. © Lynsey Addario
Chuol escaped into a vast swamp in South Sudan where fighters swept into his village, September 2015. © Lynsey Addario
Mick Hartley 
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