Fotografiskt

Bosnien, svältkatastrofer, Rwanda, heroinhandel, AIDS, miljöförstöring: James Nachtwey brukar välja tunga ämnen. När han nyligen mottog TED-priset utvecklade han sina tankar om fotografiet och dess politiska potential:

Nachtwey takes us along his career, starting with his idealistic training in the 1960s. The pictures of the civil rights movement “had a powerful influence on me.
Our leaders were telling us one thing, the photographers were telling us another. I believed the photographers and so did millions of other Americans.” He believed that the consciousness that comes from war photography could “evolve into a shared sense of conscience,” to “give voice to those who otherwise would not have a voice.”

(Citerat från Ethan Zuckermans blogg.)

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