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

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

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

- 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…

- 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 …

- 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…

- James Nachtwey

If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job.

- James Nachtwey

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

- James Nachtwey