"Critical Biography
of James Nachtwey"
Since his first foreign assignment covering
the IRA hunger strike in Northern Ireland, photojournalist James Nachtwey has devoted himself to documenting war, famine,
genocide, and other critical social issues in hopes that his images will provoke real change. “His goal is to bear witness,
because someone must, and his pictures, devised to infuriate and move people to action, are finally about us, and our concern
or lack of it, at least as much they are about him and his obvious talents” (Kimmelman 1).