"The worst thing is to feel that as……" — James Nachtwey
"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 reckon with every day, because I know that if I ever allow genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person's predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other and to that extent I can accept myself."
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40 Quotes by James Nachtwey
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For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate…
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If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted…
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There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!
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[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global…
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I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience.…
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I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.
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Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a…
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I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten…
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I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were…
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I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
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I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.
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If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.
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