James Nachtwey - TED Prize Winner 2007

Trailer from the film "War Photographer"

For the past three decades, James Nachtwey has devoted himself to documenting wars, conflicts and critical social issues, working in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, South Africa, Russia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Romania, Brazil and the United States.

Nachtwey has been a contract photographer with Time since 1984. However, when certain stories he wanted to cover -- such as Romanian orphanages and famine in Somalia -- garnered no interest from magazines, he self-financed trips there. He is known for getting up close to his subjects, or as he says, "in the same intimate space that the subjects inhabit," and he passes that sense of closeness on to the viewer.

In putting himself in the middle of conflict, his intention is to record the truth, to document the struggles of humanity, and with this, to wake people up and stir them to action.


Listen to a powerful talk by James Nachtwey as he shares with the world about his decades as a war photographyer.
Click: James Nachtwey @ www.ted.com

Photo Essay by James Nachtwey@Time.com

Inspired Talks by World's Greatest Thinkers n Doers

James Nachtwey's HomePage

DVD - War Photographer @ Amazon.com

"Inferno", Photo Book by James Nachtwey @ Amazon.com

""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-