Word: nachtwey
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...WOUNDED. MICHAEL WEISSKOPF, 57, senior correspondent for TIME, and JAMES NACHTWEY, 55, TIME photographer, in a grenade attack as they were traveling with two soldiers in a Humvee; in Baghdad. Weisskopf, a Washington-based correspondent on assignment in Iraq, picked up the grenade and threw it out of the vehicle, losing his right hand...
...photojournalist Robert Capa once said, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." For Gulf War II, TIME's photographers are as close as they can be. Yuri Kozyrev, James Nachtwey and Patrick Robert are in Baghdad, getting pictures of the city as it suffers the trauma of bombardment. Four others--James Hill, Benjamin Lowy, Christopher Morris and Robert Nickelsberg--are traveling with U.S. forces as they fight their way north. Kate Brooks, Thomas Dworzak and Yunghi Kim are already there, with the Kurds in northern Iraq. Here is some of what they...
...JAMES NACHTWEY...
...world's most acclaimed photojournalists, Nachtwey debated whether to travel with U.S. troops but opted in the end to work from Baghdad, where he has recorded the sights--the rubble of damaged buildings, the bomb victims in hospital wards--of a city under withering attack. The severe weather that has hampered allied troops has also hit Baghdad. "The sandstorm was the most amazing sight," says Nachtwey. "It looked like the prelude to an apocalypse...
...Baghdad was pounded, photographers James Nachtwey, Yuri Kozyrev and Patrick Robert stayed in the Palestine Hotel recording the event and the aftermath for the magazine even as reporter Saad Hattar attempted to gauge the regime's longevity--and was expelled for his trouble...