War Photographer
I just watched a documentary titled 'War Photographer' and it was moving and sad and painful and angry and fascinating. It is hard to do it any justice by trying to review it - below is one of James Nachtwey's photographs that tells it's own story.Click on the photograph to visit James' website to check more of his photographs.
And you should check out the documentary for sure - it will make you look at the world through different eyes. To say that you can't stomach such pain and misery would be a shame - if you think that way then you really have lost all touch with your own humanity. This is one of the lines that James' says in the documentary that probably sums it up: "At the end of the day, I believe people do want to know when there's some major tragedy going on; when there's some unacceptable situation happening in this world. And they want something done about it. That's what I believe. We must look at it. We're required to look at it. We're required to do what we can about it. If we don't, who will? "
Amit
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posted by Amit @ 10:08 PM
1 Comments:
i've always admired journalists and photographers who actually, truly bear witness. true battle-zone journalism has been a very rare commodity since the introduction "embedded reporting" (although, really, it's nothing new) on the one hand, and the high risk of being kidnapped/mutilated/killed-in-action by either side on the other.
and even if they do get a decent story, will the editors run it? i despair when sporting achievements are front page news while disasters in Asia or the trial of a genocidal monster are buried in the 'international section' (usually alongside funny-ha-ha or funny-what-a-strange-world tidbits).
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