Is any job worth putting your life in danger? Sebastian Junger wondered what it was like to be in combat. He found out in the deadly mountains of Afghanistan. Sonia Nazario wanted to experience the journey of a migrant kid on his way to the U.S. border. To do it, she had to ride the “Train of Death.”

Sonia Nozario followed a Honduran boy on his journey to reunite with his mother in the U.S. (Enrique’s Journey)

Sebastian Junger spent a year embedded with American soldiers in Afghanistan (War, A Perfect Storm, and other works).