Combat photographer Sara Miles has hardened herself to the horror she documents. Her camera is her life.
When an explosion takes her sight, an experimental transplant offers it back, part human, part machine, all risk. She says yes without hesitation.
But the new eye shows her more of the world than anyone should see.
How far would you go to keep your sight?
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The research behind the book
Why combat photographers go back
Sara was inspired by real conflict photographers, especially Lynsey Addario, whose memoir It's What I Do explores why photographers risk everything to capture the truth of war.
The race to transplant a human eye
Whole-eye transplants sit at the frontier of real medicine, where the challenge is not the eye but rewiring the optic nerve to the brain.
Nietzsche and the abyss
The story opens with Nietzsche's warning about gazing into the abyss, a frame for a woman who has stared at war so long it now stares back.
Demons of war in myth and art
From medieval battlefields to modern horror, artists have painted violence as a demon riding on human shoulders, an image this story makes literal.
From laser eye surgery to story
Joanna's own laser eye surgery sparked the question at the heart of the story: how far would you go to keep your sight?
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