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Title: The Shattered Lens
Subtitle: A War Photographer's True Story of Captivity and Survival in Syria
Author: Jonathan Alpeyrie, Stash Luczkiw
Narrator: Qarie Marshall
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-17-17
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
Capturing history was Jonathan Alpeyrie's job, but he never expected to become a news story himself. For a decade, the French-American photojournalist weaved in and out of over a dozen conflict zones. But, during his third assignment to Syria, Alpeyrie was betrayed by his fixer and handed over to a band of Syrian rebels.
For 81 days, he was bound, blindfolded, and beaten. Over the course of his captivity, Alpeyrie kept his spirits up and strived to see, without his camera lenses, the humanity in his captors. The Shattered Lens is his firsthand account: the account of a photojournalist who has always answered the next adrenaline-pumping assignment but, during his headline-making kidnapping, was left to consider the value and risks of his career, to ponder the violent conflicts he had seen, and to put the historical events over which he had no control into perspective.
Members Reviews:
Sister enjoyed the book
This was a gift. My sister enjoyed the book.
Jonathan has many strong feelings about the political events in the middle east that might not appeal to all readers but he has
There is so much to say about the this real life harrowing struggle I am not sure where to even began.
Jonathan Alpeyrie job is what most photography dream of but very few have the courage to do.
Jonahtan Alpeyrie story is or about bring a captive guest than prisoner. He wasn't beaten, or torture but the stress of not knowing what was going to happen had to been torture enough. He is very open about the fact it could have been much worse and he understands he was lucky even blessed that it wasn't.
He was able to take a unknown very frightening time in his life and bring humor into by giving his captor's names. He writes about meaningful relationship he developed with some of his captors and still keeps in contact with them.
As readers read this book you wish to have had pictures to be able to better understand the events during his time in Syria. Many times I found it difficult to understand what Jonathan was describing.
Jonathan has many strong feelings about the political events in the middle east that might not appeal to all readers but he has some very strong points I feel everyone needs to look at and question.
In the end what I found this story having me looking for answers to my question. What is the true meaning of freedom.
Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher Atria Books for the advance copy
Gripping Tale of Capture and Modern Hot Spots
Jonathan Alpeyrie wanted to get that one great shot. Instead what he got was captivity.
"The Shattered Lens" is the account of Alpeyrie's capture by Syrian rebels and his almost three-month stint as their hostage. This is followed by his description of what his family went through trying to free him, and his subsequent return to work as a war photographer, this time in Eastern Ukraine. Throughout his story, Alpeyrie meditates on the meaning of freedom and the experience of being caught up in the tides of history, for better or for worse.
Alpeyrie's story is inherently gripping. His captivity could have been much worse, as he openly acknowledges: he was rarely beaten and suffered nothing in the way of out-and-out physical torture.
