If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film. — James Nachtwey Copy Share
The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what… — James Nachtwey Copy Share
Why photograph war? Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior, which has existed throughout history, by the means… — James Nachtwey Copy Share
There has always been war. War is raging throughout the world at the present moment. And there is little reason to believe that war… — James Nachtwey Copy Share
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… — James Nachtwey Copy Share
For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can… — James Nachtwey Copy Share
If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer. — James Nachtwey Copy Share
Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there is some… — James Nachtwey Copy Share
And I realized that many of the people I was photographing might have been the very ones who had committed the massacres that I… — James Nachtwey Copy Share
I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it. — James Nachtwey Copy Share
I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level. — James Nachtwey Copy Share
I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer. — James Nachtwey Copy Share
While I was doing this reportage, I discovered a man who had one arm and one leg. He'd been run over by a train… — James Nachtwey Copy Share
It has occurred to me that if everyone could be there just once to see for themselves what white phosphorous does to the face… — James Nachtwey Copy Share
