James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey
James Nachtweyis an American photojournalist and war photographer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth14 March 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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 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.
jobs people upset
If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job.
photography people trying
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
moving grief people
If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.
memories collective-memory people
I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve to remind us that history's deepest tragedies concern not the great protagonists who set events in motion but the countless ordinary people who are caught up in those events and torn apart by their remorseless fury. I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.
jobs people records
There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!
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.