Adieu, Antoni! A Farewell Letter to Antoni Lallican, Photographer and Journalist Killed by Russia

Adieu, Antoni! A Farewell Letter to Antoni Lallican, Photographer and Journalist Killed by Russia

For a foreign journalist, who, theoretically, could just spend his life eating baguettes and drinking red wine in Paris, a feeling of moral obligation will only take you so far. You need a bit of madness, a bit of deep-seated irresponsibility. I personally call this the “cowboy spirit”. I think it was Ernest Hemingway, to explain the motivation war correspondents feel, who once said: “Astronauts don't go to the moon because they hate oxygen.” Ev…