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Monday, February 3, 7:00pm, Barnum 008
JAMES NACHTWEY
Award presentation followed by screening of the film War Photographer and discussion
One of EPIIC's 2003 Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Recipients
"I have been a witness and these pictures are my testimony. The
events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be
repeated." --James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey is one of the world's leading war photographers. The extraordinarily powerful images of
violence and suffering he has been taking for the past 25 years have seared their way into our collective
unconscious. Following his subject to Kosovo, Indonesia and the West Bank, Christian Frei stays close enough
to Nachtwey to record his breathing, as the photographer dodges bullets, stones and tear gas to capture
remarkably fresh, compassionate images from some of the most dangerous, incendiary spots on the globe.
2001 Academy AwardÆ Nominee for Best Documentary Feature • 2002 New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival
His first foreign assignment was to cover civil strife in Northern Ireland in 1981
during the IRA hunger strike. Since then, Nachtwey has devoted himself to documenting
wars, conflicts and critical social issues. He has worked on extensive photographic
essays in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank
and Gaza, Israel, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, the Philippines,
South Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, South Africa, Russia, Bosnia,
Chechnya, Kosovo, Romania, Brazil and the United States. He has received numerous
honors such as the Robert Capa Gold Medal (five times), the World Press
Photo Award (twice), Magazine Photographer of the Year (six times), the International
Center of Photography Infinity Award (three times), the Leica Award (twice),
the Bayeaux Award for War Correspondents (twice), the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award,
the Canon Photo essayist Award, and the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant in
Humanistic Photography.
Sponsored by EPIIC as part of its 2002-03 year on "Sovereignty and Intervention"
For more information call 617-627-3314
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