Every day the papers are full of pictures depicting war and oppression, but the life of the person who makes them is also a story. What motivates someone to be confronted with death and misery, to work while risking their own life, sometimes literally amid flying bullets? Is it a sense of task, of lending a voice to the oppressed? Is it political engagement, or an escape from day-to-day reality, a craving for adventure?

Black Passport is the biography of a life spent at war, alternating Stanley Greene's images from the front with private ones. The reader is introduced to his friends, his wife and later ex-wife, his lovers and his colleagues, and, just as he did, is tossed back and forth between a safe western life and the horrors of the field.