Go Unlimited with Magzter GOLD
Get unlimited access to 10,000+ magazines, newspapers and Premium stories for just
Try GOLD - Free
Old is Gold - Famine in Somalia - 1992
Chiiz
|Volume 43
About James Nachtwey: The Photojournalist
Photographs of the Vietnam War and the American Civil Rights movement inspired him to become a photographer. While teaching himself photography, he worked as a truck driver and as an apprentice news film editor.
In 1980, after working for several years as a newspaper photographer in New Mexico, 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.
Since then, Nachtwey has devoted himself to documenting wars, conflicts, and critical social issues, photographing ordinary people in the cause of history. 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.
This story is from the Volume 43 edition of Chiiz.
Subscribe to Magzter GOLD to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 10,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Sign In
MORE STORIES FROM Chiiz
Chiiz
Understanding Flash Photography: How to Shoot Great Photographs Using Electronic Flash
Understanding Flash Photography: How to Shoot Great Photographs Using Electronics is a guide to on- and off-camera flash picks up wherever Peterson’ previous title, Understanding Exposure, left off--helping free photographers from the constraints of automotive vehicles to induce the pictures they need once natural light isn’t enough.
3 mins
Volume 52
Chiiz
Dried and Dusted
The West Bengal state of India has always been known for its rich culture and diversity. This innate taste and style is reflected in their dishes too. Their cuisine is essentially. A lot of its flavours and masala mixes have been handed down from over a thousand years and Bengalis to this day retain those recipes which make them truly “shonar Bangla” dishes.
2 mins
Volume 52
Chiiz
Old is Gold
Mushroom Cloud Over Nagasaki, Lieutenant Charles Levy | 1945
3 mins
Volume 52
Chiiz
Chasing Ice (2012)
Director: Jeff Orlowski Music director: J. Ralph Producers: Jerry Aronson, Jeff Orlowski Cinematography: Jeff Orlowski
3 mins
Volume 52
Chiiz
Old is Gold
Untitled Film Still 21, Cindy Sherman | 1978
3 mins
Volume 51
Chiiz
Extraordinary Everyday Photography: Awaken Your Vision to Create Stunning Images Wherever You Are
Book Review
3 mins
Volume 51
Chiiz
Proof (1991)
Movie Review
3 mins
Volume 51
Chiiz
Night Photography and Light Painting: Finding Your Way in the Dark by Lance Keimig
Book Review
2 mins
Volume 50
Chiiz
Old is Gold
Falling Man (2001) by Richard Drew
2 mins
Volume 50
Chiiz
Vibrant Festivities
Bengal is known as a land of festivities, where religious ceremonies outnumber the months in the calendar.
2 mins
Volume 50
Translate
Change font size