James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey
James Nachtweyis an American photojournalist and war photographer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth14 March 1948
CountryUnited States of America
gets hopefully pictures sympathy
If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.
grief frustration feelings
If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.
paris needs
Do we really need another picture of Paris Hilton or Naomi Campbell?
photography cutting political
I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.
photography war opposites
Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.
editors giving events
None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.
thinking tragic situation
I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.
war honest photograph
If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.
photography college years
I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.
animal mass-destruction people
Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.
photography war destiny
I want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes. I do not want to show war in general, nor history with a capital H, but rather the tragedy of a single man, of a family.
photography war horror
Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.
photography jobs people
Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there is some kind of value to their job I guess that's how I feel about what I do. There is a social function to documentary photography that is very important and it requires people to take risks.
photography motivation inspiration
[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.