They say about war photographers: If your pictures aren’t good enough. You’re not close enough.
James Nachtwey’s photos are more than good enough – although “good” may not be the most apt adjective for them. Horrifying, disturbing, relentless are much better words to use when talking about Nachtwey.
He is the most honored combat photographer of our time. Throughout this decade of global conflict the photographer has been an eyewitness to horror on our behalf: War, Genocide and Famine in Bosnia, Rwanda and Somalia among other places.
Along the way he changed in the depths of his soul – once called himself a war photographer, now he says he’s an anti-war photographer.
He has just published his photos from the 1990’s and he wants you to look at them and be changed as well.
James Nachtwey’s photographs of the Inferno in this hour.
(Hosted by Christopher Lydon)
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James Nachtwey