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• 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 perceived as the opposite of war.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, War, Lying

  "War Photographer". Documentary, War, www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• 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.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Events, Torn Apart

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• If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

  James Nachtwey

  War, Honest, Photograph

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• 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 and by the strength of that protest to make others protest.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Powerful, Media

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• 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 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.

  James Nachtwey

  Ambition, Compassion, Ideas

  "War Photographer". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job.

  James Nachtwey

  Jobs, People, Upset

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• There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Jobs, People

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• I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Believe, Reality

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• Quiero que mi obra forme parte de nuestra historia visual, que entre en nuestra memoria colectiva y en nuestra conciencia colectiva. Espero que sirva para recordarnos que las tragedias más profundas de la historia no afectan a los grandes protagonistas que ponen en marcha los acontecimientos, sino a las innumerables personas corrientes que se ven atrapadas en esos acontecimientos y desgarradas por su furia despiadada. Yo he sido testigo, y estas imágenes son mi testimonio. Los acontecimientos que he registrado no deben olvidarse y no deben repetirse.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Memories, Collective Memory

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• [Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Motivation, Inspiration

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• I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, People, Trying

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• 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. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

  James Nachtwey

  Grief, Moving, People

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• I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, War, Photographer

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• Cuando se dice la verdad, no hace falta adornarla. Sólo hay que decirla con sencillez, y a menudo sólo hay que decirla una vez.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Needs, Truth Is

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• I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Cutting, Political

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• Nunca eres más libre que en ese momento en el que decides exponerte al fuego de un francotirador.

  James Nachtwey

  Fire, Snipers, Moments

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• 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 very beginning this was my goal.

  James Nachtwey

  War, Order, Issues

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• Por desgracia, el mundo sigue, la historia sigue produciendo tragedias. Y es muy importante que se documenten de forma humana, de forma convincente.

  James Nachtwey

  Humane Way, Tragedy, Important

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• 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, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Pain, Impact

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• It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Important, Lessons

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• Las imágenes que llegaban de Vietnam nos mostraban lo que realmente estaba ocurriendo sobre el terreno. Contradecían lo que nos decían nuestros líderes políticos y militares. Eran imágenes documentales directas. Una poderosa denuncia de la guerra, de lo cruel e injusta que era. Cuando finalmente decidí qué hacer con mi vida, fue seguir esa tradición.

  James Nachtwey

  Poderoso, Militar, Guerra

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• The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, War, Demand

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• Mucha gente en este mundo hace trabajos que son peligrosos y en los que su vida corre peligro y sienten que hay algún tipo de valor en su trabajo, supongo que así es como me siento yo con lo que hago. La fotografía documental tiene una función social muy importante y exige que la gente corra riesgos.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Jobs, People

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• Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Mean, Ideas

  "War Photographer". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes. I do not want to show war in general, nor history with a capital H, but rather the tragedy of a single man, of a family.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, War, Destiny

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