All James Nachtwey Quotes
- For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be… Ability
- If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer. Channeled
- There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up! Doneto
- [Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact. Abstract
- I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve… Apart
- I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer. Antiwar
- Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling… Compelling
- 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. Been
- 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… Became
- I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing. People
- I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty. Beauty
- If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph. Antiwar
- The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I'm benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to… Accept
- I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it. Any
- Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable. Animal
- 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… Basic
- 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… All
- 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,… Anguish
- 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.… Certain
- 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… Asked
- Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war. Inspirational
- 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… Adorned
- The most incomprehensible situation I've ever witnessed was Rwanda where we don't really know how many people died; the estimate of half a million to… Beyond
- I began to do documentary photographs of poverty which is very widespread in Indonesia. There's terrible poverty. These are people who have jobs, raise families,… Abandoned
- 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 seven… Ago