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 with every day because I know that if I ever allowed genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role… — James Nachtwey Copy Share
I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
But everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there, to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they are doing and pay attention to what is going on, to create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media and shake people out of their indifference, to protest… — James Nachtwey Copy Share
I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
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 with every day because I know that if I ever allowed genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
