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12 quotes by James Nachtwey

James Nachtwey (born March 14, 1948 ) is an American photojournalist and war photographer. He grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied Art History and Political Science (1966–70). He has been awarded the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal five times. In 2003, he was injured by a grenade in an attack on his convoy while serving as a Time contributing correspondent in Baghdad, from which he has made...
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I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

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If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with... →

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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.

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

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Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

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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... →

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If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted... →

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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... →

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I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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