If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job. — James Nachtwey Done Copy Share Image
There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up! — James Nachtwey Jobs Copy Share Image
Do we really need another picture of Paris Hilton or Naomi Campbell? — James Nachtwey Needs Copy Share Image
I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level. — James Nachtwey Abstraction Copy Share Image
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing. — James Nachtwey People Copy Share Image
You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire. — James Nachtwey Expose Copy Share Image
Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film. — James Nachtwey Exposed Copy Share Image
Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography? — James Nachtwey Balance Copy Share Image
I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social… — James Nachtwey Critical Copy Share Image
If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in… — James Nachtwey Certain Copy Share Image
I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four… — James Nachtwey Basic training Copy Share Image
The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography? — James Nachtwey Able 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… — James Nachtwey Disbelief Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the… — James Nachtwey Disbelief Copy Share Image
Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable. — James Nachtwey Animal 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… — James Nachtwey Cease to exist Copy Share Image
I attempt to become as totally responsible to the subject as I possibly can. The act of being an outsider aiming a… — James Nachtwey Photography 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 Guide me 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… — James Nachtwey Attention Copy Share Image
I want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes. I do not want… — James Nachtwey Class 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… — James Nachtwey Dangerous 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… — James Nachtwey Massacres Copy Share Image
In a way, if and individual assumes the risk of placing himself in the middle of a war to communicate to the… — James Nachtwey Peace Copy Share Image
I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope… — James Nachtwey Caught Copy Share Image
Fear is not what's important; it's how you deal with it. It would be like asking a marathon runner if they feel… — James Nachtwey Fear Copy Share Image
I'm a messenger. I don't want people to be concerned about me. I want them to be concerned about the people in… — James Nachtwey Messenger Copy Share Image
While I was doing this reportage, I discovered a man who had one arm and one leg. He'd been run over by… — James Nachtwey Children Copy Share Image
The main purpose of my work is to appear in the mass media. It's not so much that I want my pictures… — James Nachtwey Art Copy Share Image
I began to do documentary photographs of poverty which is very widespread in Indonesia. There's terrible poverty. These are people who have… — James Nachtwey Better life 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… — James Nachtwey Accepted Copy Share Image
The most incomprehensible situation I've ever witnessed was Rwanda where we don't really know how many people died; the estimate of half… — James Nachtwey Face to face 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 Believe Copy Share Image
I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer. — James Nachtwey Antiwar Copy Share Image
I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty. — James Nachtwey Beauty Copy Share Image
I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty. — James Nachtwey Beauty Copy Share Image
If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph. — James Nachtwey Antiwar Copy Share Image
None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them… — James Nachtwey Editors Copy Share Image
We must look at it. We're required to look at it. We're required to do what we can about it. If we… — James Nachtwey Look Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way,… — James Nachtwey Compelling Copy Share Image
