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He has been a part of some of our countries’ defining moments and events since the 1960’s, and he’s still going strong today. There are few who have made the impact on their field of work that James Nachtwey has on photography, specifically war photos, but, then again, there are few people like James Nachtwey. Nachtwey was born in Syracuse, New York in 1948. As a young boy, his family moved to Massachusetts, where he spent the remainder of his childhood. In 1966, at the age of 18, Nachtwey enrolled in Dartmouth College, located in Hanover, New Hampshire. At Dartmouth, Nachtwey studied Art History and Political Science from 1966 until the summer of 1970, when he graduated. Before his graduation, however, Nachtwey would make a name for himself with some very powerful pictures of of important events happening during the time he was in college, including the Civil Rights Movement, the big story at home, and the Vietnam War, the big story abroad that related to America. Nachtwey seemed to have an eye for capturing the anguish and pain involved in terrible events, which could explain his involvement in taking pictures of conflict, from the beginning of his career until today. In addition to covering the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement, Nachtwey has covered poverty in such countries as Romania, Somalia, India, Sudan, Bosnia, Rwanda, Zaire, Chechnya, and Kosovo, most of which appeared in “Inferno,” a 480-page book published in 2000 containing 382 photographs.
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