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What motivates a person to go into the world's most dangerous and violent places, to share the risks of soldiers in battle or civilians caught in war's destruction, in order to record such sights on film? Photographer James Nachtwey makes it sound simple. Says he: "There is a job to be done-to record the truth. And I have a terrific personal compulsion to do it." In the past three years, that impulse has repeatedly taken Nachtwey into some of the main cockpits of violence: Central America, the Middle East, Northern Ireland. Last year, on assignment...
Last week Nachtwey accepted the Overseas Press Club's (O.P.C.) Robert Capa Gold Medal for his photography of both combatants and civilians in Nicaragua and Lebanon. The award, named after the famed LIFE photographer who died in 1954 in Indochina, is one of the most prestigious in photojournalism because it is given for overseas reporting "requiring exceptional courage and enterprise...
...Nachtwey does not discount the risks he takes. "I've had close calls on "almost every assignment, and was wounded by a land mine in El Salvador in 1982," he says. "After a while, you tend not to think about the danger. But when a first-rate photographer is killed, as Newsweek's John Hoagland was in El Salvador in March, that's when you realize the great degree of risk we all court. Hoagland was no cowboy. Almost none of us is. The Robert Capa medal doesn't reward cowboys. It is given for practicing...