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Fearless to the end: Remembering Margaret Moth

By Jessica Ravitz, CNN

March 21, 2010 12:57 p.m. EDT

CNN photojournalist Margaret Moth covered conflicts spanning continents, and said she lived her life to the fullest.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Her guts, skill and humor made Margaret Moth one to remember
• The longtime CNN photojournalist dies of cancer at 59, after surviving wars
• Shot in Sarajevo, she lived and went back to conflict zone as soon as she could
• Christiane Amanpour and others remember her for life she lived "to the max"

(CNN) -- Simply put, Margaret Moth made an impression.

Given her jet-black hair, thick black eyeliner, black clothes and combat boots (which she often slept in while on assignment), people didn't always know what to think upon meeting her. She was quirky, the sort who excused herself from a social gathering by saying she had to wash her socks. And she was fearless, the kind of woman who not only kept the camera rolling while under fire, but zoomed in on a soldier who was shooting at her.