If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job.
You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire. - James Nachtwey
You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.
- James Nachtwey
There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up! - James Nachtwey
There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!
If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph. - James Nachtwey
If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.
If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job. - James Nachtwey
When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once. - James Nachtwey
When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
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 … - James Nachtwey
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 …
The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what our politic… - James Nachtwey
The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what our politic…
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing. - James Nachtwey
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon w… - James Nachtwey
The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon w…
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