I must respond on this person... your reply with the words "lurked" & "around here for six years" smacks at a person that could be "mental" & one who has no life. Cheers, DM Brown

@DonMichaelBrown, do you have the intelligence to actually comprehend what this man and others like him puts themselves through in order to get these pictures that have moved the world? They go through absolute hell. They see things nobody should bear witness to, executions, gun battles, bombing watching their colleagues and friends die before their eyes and Mr. Nachtwey was even at ground zero on 9/11 and still at he site when the buildings came down. You try do all that.

Milijons of Lives & Souls ripped apart., Because of what!? CORRUPT BANKS!, OIL INDUSTRY, PROPERTY, MONEY, LAND, CURRENCY, EGO, Billions of people still relying on a rigid belief system to give themselves a False sense of Security and Meaning!!! And because of that, There are now milijons of innocent people who are dead or Without their Loved Ones...  For all the victems who lost their lives in Wars, and other Unnecessary violence. ................... ...........­­........☮✿R est In Peace✿☮

This made me want to be a photo journalist, not a photographer. I don't want to take pictures because i like to, I want to take them because i need to tell a story.

jealousy, envy and ego are really ugly Don. Probably what cause these wars that JN wants to stop. I am sure he would be happy to be out of a job - no wars.

thank you for your inspirational comment Don. If I had the energy I would reply in detail in an attempt to help you understand. I'm just not sure whether I'd get anywhere with you though.

So basically you're saying he should put himself at this tremendous risk, take these amazing photos, use his skill in a way he loves and inform people of the horrors of war...but shouldn't be rewarded materially for his sacrifices? You are obviously a tremendous human being and I hope you live in as interesting times as James does and that all your wishes come true.

This is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. 

show the full movie you will o a good thing

@DonMichaelBrown, are you nuts? 

Easy to criticize a man who works so hard and puts himself in situations of great risk on a regular basis, huh? Being a mere human myself, I can forgive the man a few creature comforts in the time between his self-less acts of bearing witness to things that you or I can only hope never to see firsthand. With a body of work as important as his, a retrospective, a documentary, seems like a minor indulgence in sharing the story of how and why, he does what he does.

Easy to criticize a man who works so hard and puts himself in situations of great risk on a regular basis, huh? Being a mere human myself, I can forgive the man a few creature comforts in the time between his self-less acts of bearing witness to things that you or I can only hope never to see firsthand. With a body of work as important as his, a retrospective, a documentary, seems like a minor indulgence in sharing the story of how, and why, he does what he does.

In the doc. he reads a letter from a person re: one of his assingments in Indonesia. the reader only gets $396 a month from SS/US. Does Mr. Nachtwey send some of his commisions to the people/situations? I wonder? I can't sympathise with his so called troubled heart when I see him casually sipping a beverage in NYC loft. Or, snoozing at 37,000' while flying first class. Not to mention taking part in a doc. about himself? Having a retrospective of his work @ ICP... he's on the take. hmm?

Well said An equal experience i have facing similar to this one, simply because i know it's one of the main causes to all this, is the experience of ignorance. It proceeds people, and it's all but vanity to try talking to someone who's ignorance is ahead of them.They don't know when they don't know,and the beliefs made from people lacking the direct experience of a reality are more then often highly insulting and crud to the reality they lack. It's too easy to have no conscience.

Quand je parle de Photographie je pense aux ReportersPhoto. Quand je pense aux Reporters je pense à James Nachtwey , c'est le plus grand. Seul regret, les photographes ne changent pas le Monde.

- nah. we just think we are. We are not the important. Earth doesn't care that much what we do or don't do here. On a long enough timeline the world will see us come, see us go, and go on with itself. Same as it's done with all other species now extinct. So, in summary.. don't give your or us that much credit. Very short-sighted and arrogant. That's not a dig at all, think about it. Really think about it.

i really, really recomend susan sontag's "Regarding the Pain of Others" if you care about war and photography. it really makes you understand the construcion of the photographic image as a very conscious excercise

May God bless you James, your work is amazing and transcends frontiers. Keep safe and continue touching hearts and evoking change around the world

i just recently found out he worked with Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva(hope he has a speedy recovery, btw), Ken Oosterbroek, and Kevin Carter in southe africa in the early 90's. in fact he was friends with Kevin, helping him get references an new cameras when he won the pulitzer; he was also in Thokoza the day Ken was killed. He was one of the ones helping Greg when he was severly wounded at the same time. anyway, i really look up to these guys, they're a special group. KoKc1994

we can't stop it but we can make others see it as he did

Incredible.

I was having troubles deciding a future for myself (recent highschool graduate). I was considering photography, but to me it didn't match that level of prestige that other things I was considering would. When I watched this movie I realized the true importance of photography. I have decided to be a photojournalist. I want to create change.

This inspired me to do photography and opened my eyes to the reality many people out there live everyday. James Nachtwey you are an inspiration and a revolutionary! Peace.

That is true but we still have to try, even if failure is almost certain if there is even a chance of change the smallest amount that's more than enough to keep going ,to keep fighting against the inequality's of the world. What's worse trying and possibly failing or not trying and defiantly failing. Namaste

real great said, James