James Nachtwey

The famous photographer James Natchtwey graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied art history and political science. A few years later, in 1980, he moved to New York to be a freelance magazine photographer. His first foreign assignment was to cover the issues in Northern Ireland in 1981 during the IRA hunger strike. After this experience he focused only on documenting wars, social issues, and conflicts. Nachtwey has been a contract photographer with Time magazine since 1984. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, Rome, and around the world. He has received numerous honors such as the Common Wealth Award, Martin Luther King Award, Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award, Henry Luce Award, Robert Capa Gold Medal (five times), the World Press Photo Award (twice), Magazine Photographer of the Year (seven 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.