Tag: James Nachtwey
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James Nachtwey on a Photo’s ‘Social Value’ and Forgoing a Family for His Work | PetaPixel
James Nachtwey on a Photo’s ‘Social Value’ and Forgoing a Family for His Work A true legend. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/08/james-nachtwey-on-a-photos-social-value-and-forgoing-a-family-for-his-work/ Legendary war photographer James Nachtwey has appeared on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper to reflect on his career — discussing the importance of photography and his own personal sacrifices.
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The Costs of the Russian Onslaught in Ukraine | The New Yorker
The Costs of the Russian Onslaught in Ukraine Destruction, brutality, and terrible loss in Bucha, Kharkiv, Irpin, and elsewhere. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/portfolio/05/09/the-costs-of-war The invasion of Ukraine has been described as the first social-media war, and a key aspect of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s leadership has been his ability to rally his country, and much…
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Haiti by VII
Link: Haiti has always been a land of beauty and pain, of light and darkness. When a catastrophic earthquake hit the island on Tuesday, January 12th, the world was shaken by the magnitude of the destruction and human suffering. In this story for VII The Magazine, photographers James Nachtwey, Ron Haviv, Lynsey Addario and Benjamin…
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Vogue’s flattering profile on Assad’s wife disappears from Web
Link: Although the Vogue piece didn’t mention it, the photos that accompanied the article — of Asma al-Assad, her husband and two of their children at home in Damascus — were facilitated by an American public-relations firm working for the Syrian government. The firm, Brown Lloyd James, was paid $25,000 to set up a photo…
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James Nachtwey and 9/11 seen in 2001 and in 2011
Link: Maybe what we are seeing here is not just some digital post-processing completely out of control, but also the result of seeing almost each and every event on the big screen, re-imagined in some Hollywood form: Our thought of “It almost did not look real” is turned into a reality: It literally does not…
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L’entretien. Prix Bayeux : James Nachtwey débarque en Normandie
Link: The first bit of advice I would give to someone who aspires to cover wars is not to do it. Are you really sure you know what you’re getting into? Have you thought deeply about the potential consequences for yourself and for your family? Why don’t you find something else to do that would…
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Ljubljana : James Nachtwey at Slovenia Press Photo – The Eye of Photography
Link: I spent the entire day right in the middle of the chaos and barely managed to survive. That night I made my way to the TIME office, dropped off the film and after the initial edit for a special issue of the magazine, I never looked at it again. My heart had been broken.…
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James Nachtwey: The Journey of Hope | TIME
James Nachtwey: The Journey of Hope From the wine-dark waters of the Aegean Sea to the back roads of the Balkans via Time: https://time.com/4065597/james-nachtwey-the-journey-of-hope/ From the wine-dark waters of the Aegean Sea to the back roads of the Balkans, James Nachtwey documents the dangerous passage
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James Nachtwey’s Archive to Be Preserved at Dartmouth College | TIME
James Nachtwey’s Archive to be Preserved at Dartmouth College The archive counts hundreds of thousands of negatives and prints via Time: https://time.com/4486758/james-nachtwey-dartmouth-college/ Hundreds of thousands of negatives and prints will be preserved
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Honoring the creation of VII Photo Agency – The Eye of Photography
Honoring the creation of VII Photo Agency Perpignan, Visa pour l’image festival, September 8, 2001. For a few years, a certain gloom reigns over the world of photojournalism, in seemingly continuous decline. Then, however, a group of seven photojournalists– Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey, and John Stanmeyer– announced…
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The third edition of Eyes on Main Street – The Eye of Photography
The third edition of Eyes on Main Street Focusing on the theme of “Main Street: a Crossroad of Cultures,” the exhibition, curated by Jerome De Perlinghi and co-curated by Catherine Coulter Lloyd and Régina Monfort, features the work of 100 photographers from 31 countries with an equal number of men and women. Among the artists…
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Philippines: Rodrigo Duterte’s Drug War Photos
Photographs From the Front Lines of Philippines’ Drug War James Nachtwey photographs the bloody crackdown on drugs in the Philippines via TIME.com: http://time.com/philippines-drug-war/ Photos by James Nachtwey for Time
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Why War Photographers Are More Important than Ever | Vanity Fair
Why War Photographers Are More Important than Ever Sebastian Junger explains why the work of David Douglas Duncan, Don McCullin, James Nachtwey, and Lynsey Addario is more essential than ever before. via Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/05/war-photographers Sebastian Junger explains why the work of David Douglas Duncan, Don McCullin, James Nachtwey, and Lynsey Addario is more essential…
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James Nachtwey: A New Purgatory for Thousands of Refugees | TIME
A New Purgatory for Thousands of Refugees James Nachtwey photographs the squalid conditions in a refugee camp in Idomeni via Time: http://time.com/4269922/james-nachtwey-purgatory-refugees-idomeni/ They live in a legal limbo – thousands of men, women and children stuck in a squalid camp near the town of Idomeni along the border of Greece and Macedonia. Their fate contingent…
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James Nachtwey: How Photography Can Change the World | TIME
James Nachtwey: How Photography Can Change the World TIME contract photographer James Nachtwey has spent the last 30 years on the frontlines via Time: http://time.com/3693061/james-nachtwey-receives-lifetime-achievement-award/ Watch the TIME photographer’s moving acceptance speech as he receives the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Magazine Editors
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Life After War: James Nachtwey’s Photographs From Walter Reed – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/11/06/james-nachtwey-walter-reed-veterans/#1 Last week, TIME contract photographer James Nachtwey visited the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington D.C. to photograph combat veterans and wounded soldiers recovering at the facility.
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James Nachtwey: 30 Years in TIME – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/18/james-nachtwey-30-years-in-time/#1 To celebrate James Nachtwey’s 30 years as a contract photographer for TIME, we have organized an exhibit of 54 layouts that have appeared in the magazine featuring his work from Chechnya to Somalia and from Afghanistan to Burma, along with a…
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The Rohingya, Burma’s Forgotten Muslims by James Nachtwey – LightBox
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/07/10/rohingya-burmas-forgotten-muslims/#1 as these stark photos by James Nachtwey show, conditions worsen in the Rohingya camps spread out across the salt flats of the Bay of Bengal
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American Photojournalist James Nachtwey Shot In Thai Violence
American Photojournalist Shot In Thai Violence James Nachtwey continued working after being shot via Time: http://world.time.com/2014/02/01/american-photojournalist-shot-in-thai-violence/ was not badly injured and was working again soon after being wounded
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Syrian Refugees by James Nachtwey
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/01/23/syrian-refugees-by-james-nachtwey/#1