“I want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes”.
“I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer”.
“The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else’s tragedy”.
“In a way, if an individual assumes the risk of placing himself in the middle of a war to communicate to the rest of the world what’s happening, he’s trying to negotiate for peace”.
“The most incomprehensible situation I’ve ever witnessed was Rwanda where we don’t really know how many people died”.
“I saw some massacre sites and I just do not understand how people can do that to each other”.
James Nachtwey, War Photographer
