James Nachtwey Biography

James Nachtwey is considered by many to be the greatest war photographer of recent decades. He has covered conflicts and major social issues in more than 30 countries. 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.

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