( (on why he’d go the lengths he’s gone for his work) )
If everyone could be there to see for themselves the fear and the grieve just one time,
then they would understand that nothing is worth letting things get to the point where that happens to a single person,
let alone thousands.
But everyone can not be there and that is why photographers go there, to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they’re doing and pay attention to whats going on.
To create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media,
to shake people out of they’re indifference.
to protest; and by the strength of that protest, to make others protest.
James Nachtwey
[in the documentary, War Photographer (Christian Frei, 2001)]