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PEDERNALES, ECUADOR - APRIL 21: A man observes the aftermaths of an earthquake struck Ecuador on April 21, 2016 in Pedernales, Ecuador. At least 400 people were killed after a 7.8-magnitude quake and ...

Ahead of this year’s Oscar Awards, New York Times Magazine tasked photojournalist James Nachtwey with shooting a dozen nominees. A veteran war photographer, Nachtwey had never before captured ...

Reading about Sean Flynn, the hotshot photojournalist in Michael Herr’s Vietnam book Dispatches, I understood how much danger a person faces in that line of work; this 2001 profile of James Nachtwey, ...

Sometimes the disparate parts of one’s life come into conjunction in startling ways. I have been rereading “War and Peace,” and the night before I went to see “The Sacrifice,” an exhibition of ...

When military personnel speak of the “theater of operations,” they’re not necessarily referring to the subject of James Nachtwey’s photographs. But field hospitals are where key battles of war are ...

James Nachtwey is an acclaimed American photojournalist born in 1948. He is renowned for his photography that captures war, conflict, and socio-political issues. Nachtwey has been honored with ...