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Top 25 James Nachtwey Quotes (2024 Update)

James Nachtwey Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.”

3. “I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “When the truth is spoken, it doesn’t need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.”

4. “When the truth is spoken, it doesn’t need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “I don’t believe there’s any such thing as objective reality. It’s only reality as we experience it.”

6. “I don’t believe there’s any such thing as objective reality. It’s only reality as we experience it.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.”

7. “If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job.”

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

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James Nachtwey Quote: “You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.”

9. “You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.”

10. “Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.”

14. “Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.”

15. “If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I’m photographing.”

16. “I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I’m photographing.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “None of the editors I’ve worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They’ve never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.”

17. “None of the editors I’ve worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They’ve never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.”

18. “Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling way.”

20. “Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling way.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “Do we really need another picture of Paris Hilton or Naomi Campbell?”

21. “Do we really need another picture of Paris Hilton or Naomi Campbell?”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography? The proportions of that notion seem ridiculously out of balance. Yet, that very idea has motivated me.”

22. “Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography? The proportions of that notion seem ridiculously out of balance. Yet, that very idea has motivated me.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “I’m half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.”

23. “I’m half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.”

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James Nachtwey Quote: “There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!”

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

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James Nachtwey Quote: “I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.”

25. “I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.”

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