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There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!
James Nachtwey
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James Nachtwey
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 14
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War Photographer
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[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.
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I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.
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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.
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I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.
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Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.
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It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.
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For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.
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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.
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If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job.
James Nachtwey
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.
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You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.
James Nachtwey
I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.
James Nachtwey
I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.
James Nachtwey
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
James Nachtwey
If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.
James Nachtwey
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.
James Nachtwey
I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.
James Nachtwey
Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.
James Nachtwey
Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling way.
James Nachtwey
If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.
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