Nachtwey James Quotes

#1. 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.

James Nachtwey

#2. If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job.

James Nachtwey

#3. [Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

James Nachtwey

#4. Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts.

Vironika Tugaleva

#5. I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

James Nachtwey

#6. I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That's a big change for me. That - and no sleep!

Jenna Dewan

#7. Don't throw the ball before you have it.

Vern Law

#8. 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.

James Nachtwey

#9. I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

James Nachtwey

#10. is waiting, the audience is secretly aware that

Paul Joseph Gulino

#11. Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

Maria Edgeworth

#12. When men declare their love for us, we should handle them with the utmost care, even if the feelings aren't mutual. For the sake of future marital happiness, or to leave their hearts intact for another woman down the pike, let's be gentle and trustworthy with their brave declarations.

Liz Curtis Higgs

#13. 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.

James Nachtwey

#14. There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.

Starhawk

#15. A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.

Duke Ellington

#16. It is time someone put in a good word for the petite bourgeoise. Unlike the working class and capitalists, who have never lack for spokespersons, the petite bourgeoise rarely, if ever, speaks for itself.

James C. Scott

#17. If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

James Nachtwey

#18. 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.

James Nachtwey

#19. 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.

James Nachtwey

#20. I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

James Nachtwey

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

James Nachtwey

#22. 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.

James Nachtwey

#23. 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.

James Nachtwey

#24. Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.

Nancy Gibbs

#25. The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?

James Nachtwey

#26. You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.

James Nachtwey

#27. 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.

James Nachtwey

#28. After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again.

David Levithan

#29. I'm an actress, a brand, a businesswoman. I'm all kinds of stuff.

Paris Hilton

#30. There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!

James Nachtwey

#31. Do we really need another picture of Paris Hilton or Naomi Campbell?

James Nachtwey

#32. 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.

James Nachtwey

#33. I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

James Nachtwey

#34. Wake up early. Drink some juice, and eat well. Work hard. Be ambitious. Keep your priorities straight, your mind right, and your head up. Do well, live well, love well, and dress really well. Do what you love, love what you do. It is time to start living.

Anonymous

#35. 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.

James Nachtwey

#36. 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

#37. How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.

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