Photojournalist Jane Tyska has traveled to 85 countries in her decades-long career, but her heart — and many of her images — have never left the Seacoast.

At least 136 pictures she took for the Portsmouth Press from 1990-1992 reside in the Athenaeum's online archives. When she retires, she plans to spend summers in town scanning hundreds more.

Tyska has worked for the Bay Area News Group since 1997. Based in Oakland, California, she has covered major wildfires, earthquakes, flooding, and blizzards ("I'm kind of like Captain Disaster") as well as thousands of homicides, refugee camps in Bhutan and political tumult in Eastern Europe.

"During Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, I'd work with the National Guard during the day, and jam at nights," said Tyska, who plays the bass and drums and

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