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Chechnya, 1996 - Ruins of central Grozny.

"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."

-James Nachtwey-

Chechnya, 1996 - No man' s land between Russian army and Chechen rebels in Grozny.

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Common Wealth Award, Martin Luther King Award, Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award, Henry Luce
Award, Robert Capa Gold Medal (five times), the World Press Photo Award (twice), Magazine Photographer of the
Year (seven times), the International Center of Photography Infinity Award (three times), the Leica Award (twice),
the Bayeaux Award for War Correspondents (twice), the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, the Canon Photo essayist Award
and the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant in Humanistic Photography. He is a fellow of the Royal Photographic
Society and has an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Arts.

donors and turn the situation around. He said 1.5 million lives were saved. That made it all worthwhile. It means everything to know your
work has that kind of impact.

Sudan, 1993 - Famine victim in a feeding center.

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While he says its difficult to gauge the influence of his own work, Nachtwey
was gratified when a Red Cross official told him that his photos of the 1992
famine in Somalia, which hed taken on spec and were ultimately published in
The New York Times Magazine, helped mobilize donors and turn the
situation around. He said 1.5 million lives were saved. That made it all
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worthwhile. It means everything to know your work has that kind of impact.

Somalia, 1992 - Child starved by famine, a man-made weapon of mass


extermination.

Somalia, 1992 - Famine victim sewn into burial shroud.

Starvation and disease are


the original weapons of
mass destruction. When you
burn fields and kill animals,
people are left vulnerable.
Hundreds of thousands of
people were killed by this
means in Somalia.

Sudan, 1993 - Famine victim about to receive water in a feeding center.

Rwanda, 1994 - Survivor of Hutu death camp.

"It was an unbelievable genocide," said Nachtwey, "people


slaughtered with primitive weapons by their own countrymen
at close range. To this day I don't understand it. 1

Romania, 1990 - An orphan in an institution for "incurables".

During the question and answer period someone commented that Nachtwey often
showed esthetically beautiful compositions of terrible subjects. Nachtwey, who joined
Magnum in 1986, said his approach was an homage to Eugene Smith, Joseph Koudelka,
Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. 1!

Romania, 1990 - An orphanage for " incurables".

"It shook my faith," he said, "because the reason for these


atrocities was politically oriented, the price paid for
industrialization in Romania. 1

Bosnia, 1993 - Ethnic cleansing in Mostar. Croat militiaman fires on his Moslem neighbors.

"This is a bedroom where he begins and now it has


become a battlefield - Nachtwey 1

Afghanistan, 1996 - Mourning a brother killed by a Taliban rocket.

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


-Nachtwey 2

Afghanistan, 1996 - Ruins of Kabul from civil war.

I still think people want to hold a magazine, read a printed page and contemplate it. Digital interference means
that a picture is no longer a photo document but becomes a photo illustration. As journalists we lose our credibility."
But, an audience member asked, how is computer manipulation different from dodging and burning?
Nachtweysaid that he condones darkroom techniques to bring the image closer to what his eye had seen, but he
never "plays the hand of God and burns the sky dark. 1

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.2

Alabama, 1994 - Prisoner on the chain gang.

Alabama, 1994 - Punishment post on the chain gang.

Pakistan, 2001 - A rehab center for heroin addicts.

In the present tense, photography is critical in helping create an atmosphere in which


change is possible, not only possible but inevitableit becomes an archive of visual
memory, so that we learn from the past and apply its lessons to the future. 4

Bosnia, 1993 - Mourning a soldier killed by Serbs and buried in what was
once a football field.

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke a sense of humanity. If war is an attempt to negate
humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war and if it is used well it can be a powerful
ingredient in the antidote to war. 4

Afghanistan is the worlds leading producer of opium poppy. NATO spends tens of millions annually on anti-drug measures to prevent Afghan dope from
flooding Moscow, New York and London and profits from filling Taliban war coffers.

to create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media and shake
people out of their indifference, to protest, and by the strength of that protest to make others protest. 4

Drug users gather beneath a bridge over an open sewer in Kabul.

Many addicts are ex-war refugees who picked up the habit in Iran and Pakistan, or military veterans wrecked by combat and isolation.

Many addicts are former refugees from the Soviet occupation in the 1980s or the civil wars that followed; they picked up the habit in
camps in Iran and Pakistan. Others are veterans of those wars. They are now being joined by a new generation of addicts
traumatized by the current fighting. Many gather to shoot up in the bomb-blasted ruins of Kabuls old town, within view of the
presidential palace. 5

New York, 2001 - Ground Zero.

In 2001, Nachtwey, along with 6 other photojournalists created their own photo agency VII with this mission
statement:
What unites VIIs work is a sense that, in the act of communication at the very least, all is not lost; the seeds of
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hope and resolution
inform even the darkest records of inhumanity; reparation is always possible; despair is never
absolute.
in 2011 Nachtwey decided to leave VII saying that I disassociated from7the agency as a photographer. His
photography business is now being conducted through his own business.

Citations
Nachtwey, James. Ruins of central Grozny. 1996. James Nacthwey. Web. 3 Nov. 2013
Nachtwey, James. No mans land between Russian army and Chechen rebels in Grozny. 1996. James Nacthwey. Web. 3 Nov. 2013
Nachtwey, James. Famine victim in a feeding center. 1993. James Nachtwey. Web. 3 Nov. 2013.
Nachtwey, James. Child starved by famine, a man-made weapon of mass-extermination. 1992. James Nachtwey. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. Famine victim sewn into burial shroud 1992. James Nachtwey. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. Famine victim about to receive water in a feeding center. 1993. James Nachtwey. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. Survivor of Hutu death camp. 1994. James Nachtwey. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. An orphan institution for incurables. 1990. James Nachtwey. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. An orphanage for incurables. 1990. James Nachtwey. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. Ethnic cleansing in Mostar. Croat militiaman fires on his Moslem neighbors. 1993. James Nachtwey. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. Mourning a brother killed by a Taliban rocket. 1996. James Nachtwey. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. Ruins of Kabul from civil war . 1996. James Nachtwey. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. Prisoner on the chain gang. 1994. James Nachtwey. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. Punishment post on the chain gang. 1994. James Nachtwey. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. A rehab center for heroine addicts. 2001. James Nachtwey. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. Mourning a soldier killed by Serbs and buried in what was once a football field.. 1993. James Nachtwey. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. Untitled. 2011. Tine. Time Lightbox. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. Untitled. 2011. Tine. Time Lightbox. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. Untitled. 2011. Tine. Time Lightbox. Web. 3 Nov 2013.
Nachtwey, James. Ground Zero. 2001. James Nachtwey. Web. 3 Nov 2013.

Citations
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Smith, Rosalind Hughes, Holly Stuart. "James Nachtwey Addressed P.R.C." Photo District News 16.3
(1996): 116. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 3 Nov. 2013.
2

Fussman, Cal. "James Nachtwey." Esquire 144.4 (2005): 206. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 3 Nov. 2013.

Barber, Bonnie. Photographer James Nachtwey 70 Awarded the Dresden International Peace
Prize. Dartmouth. Dartmouth Now. 9 Feb. 2012. Web. 3 Nov. 2013.
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Chalifour, Bruno. "On James Natchwey And VII: From Inferno To War: A Few Considerations On
James Natchwey, VII, And War Photography." Afterimage 31.6 (2004): 4-5. Art Source. Web. 3 Nov. 2013.
5

Motlagh, Jason. Addiction in Afghanistan by James Nachtwey. Time. Time Lightbox. 3 May 2011.
Web. 3 Nov. 2013.
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Faliis, Greg. James Nachtwey. Sunday Salon. Sunday Salon with Greg Fallis. n.d. Web. 3 Nov. 2013

Hughes, Holly. Nachtwy has left VII Photo; Agency Prepares for Expansion. PDN. PDN Pulse. 29
Aug 2011. 3 Nov. 2013

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