James Nachtwey grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied Art History and Political Science (1966-70). Images from the Vietnam War and the American Civil Rights movement had a powerful effect on him and were instrumental in his decision to become a photographer. He has worked aboard ships in the Merchant Marine, and while teaching himself photography, he was an apprentice news film editor and a truck driver. In 1976 he started work as a newspaper photographer in New Mexico, and in 1980, he moved to New York to begin a career as a freelance magazine photographer. His first foreign assignment was to cover civil strife in Northern Ireland in 1981 during the IRA hunger strike.
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Love this guy! Remember his ted talk. You should see it if you haven't seen it as yet - http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_nachtwey_s_searing_pictures_of_war.html
I do too. I haven't seen this talk. Trying but it isn't opening. Will look for it :)
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