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Picking the photojournalist for this project was easy: Jim Nachtwey has shot wars and famines and revolutions for TIME since 1984. When I called him last week to congratulate him on his photos, he was on assignment in Jakarta. He faxed his thoughts about what this story meant to him, and I'd like to share with you what he wrote...
Capa might have found a kindred spirit in James Nachtwey, the intrepid photojournalist and five-time Capa medal winner whose book Inferno chronicles suffering from a sometimes uncomfortably close perspective. Nachtwey, whose photographs have appeared in Time magazine and in a previous collection, 1989's Deeds of War, chooses as his subjects the spoils of war, genocide and social stigma. He is an "anti-war photographer,'' says the writer Luc Sante in Inferno's brief introduction; his photographs record the horror of war rather than the valor...
...between a bad photographer and a good photographer of these horrors is drawn where the photographs stop making you feeling just sick and start making you feel both sick and sad. My stomach-knots and grief persisted long after seeing Inferno, and that is no mean feat for a photojournalist...
...plays Joline, a New York club owner with a heart of gold. Joline leads a blessed life (as if you didn't already know this) and she is known as a woman who never ever goes back on her word. When Joline's husband Carl (Luke Wilson), a photojournalist whose employer is limiting him to culinary photography, leaves her with the only clue to his whereabouts-a postcard with a cactus on it from a state that looks like it has five letters in its name-she does the only logical thing she can do. She rents a car, packs...
...Stodghill, the midwest bureau chief for Time, Andrew Sussman, a senior program producer of the World, a BBC and WGBH Boston radio show, and Peter Turnley, a photojournalist from Newsweek in Paris were also selected...