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# James Nachtwey

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## James Nachtwey


## James Nachtwey


* ![The Himalayan mountain village of Barpak was at the epicenter of the quakes](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1afee13b227de3e1/69888f10a988ca2b226b768a/nepal-still-in-ruins-year-after-earthquake.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 14, 2016  
### [Nepal’s Man-Made Disaster](https://time.com/4293580/man-made-disaster/)  
A year after a devastating quake, politics has kept the country in ruins  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Refugees mainly from Syria, but also Afghanistan, Iraq and parts of Africa making their way across Europe. Walking from Serbia across border to Croatia, where they gathered at Tovarnik to board trains and buses to be transported to either Hungary or Slov](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe4c4a0b57ffcdaa/69886764ab6d77e3f96a6927/26_refugees_europe_nachtwey_4439_web.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 8, 2015  
### [James Nachtwey: The Journey of Hope](https://time.com/4065597/james-nachtwey-the-journey-of-hope/)  
From the wine-dark waters of the Aegean Sea to the back roads of the Balkans, James Nachtwey documen...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![refugees-james-nachtwey-turkey-greece](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d4741474235bf88/698867510a4a228dc19c673f/refugees-james-nachtwey-turkey-greece.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 8, 2015  
### [Photographing the Exodus](https://time.com/4065982/photographing-the-exodus/)  
From the wine-dark waters of the Aegean Sea to the back roads of the Balkans, documenting the danger...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Nepal earthquake. Young Buddhist monks from Hinang Gompa \(monastery\) in the village of Lhi in Gorkha district in the Annapurna Range of the Himalayas were transported by Indian Army helicopter to Pokhara because the monastery was damaged in the earthquak](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef563ba45110b2c4/6987efc9e20a87b981a89614/nepal_quake_2015_nachtwey_3115_web_150512.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 15, 2015  
### [James Nachtwey’s Latest Dispatches From Nepal](https://time.com/3859137/james-nachtwey-nepal/)  
TIME contract photographer James Nachtwey reports from the quake-devastated country  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Nepal earthquake. Town of Sankhu. Mush of town was destroyed. People digging out their possessions. by James Nachtwey](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3631292d7343b06d/6987ee21cd6848500209dd79/james-nachtwey-nepal-13.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 8, 2015  
### [James Nachtwey's Dispatches From Nepal](https://time.com/3844923/james-nachtweys-dispatches-from-nepal/)  
TIME contract photographer James Nachtwey reports from the quake-devastated country  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
* ![James Nachtwey receives Creative Excellence Award](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt72d967b594dff578/69877d5dcd1bbafdbc6f505e/nma_7907.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 3, 2015  
### [James Nachtwey: How Photography Can Change the World](https://time.com/3693061/james-nachtwey-receives-lifetime-achievement-award/)  
Watch the TIME photographer's moving acceptance speech as he receives the Lifetime Achievement Award...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![SelmaPhotograph by James Nachtwey.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1ce1e7519f07b816/698778becd6848d7b7098f9d/selma-nachtwey-11.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 8, 2015  
### [On the Set of Selma with James Nachtwey](https://time.com/3654981/on-the-set-of-selma-with-james-nachtwey/)  
Paramount Pictures commissioned photojournalist James Nachtwey  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![From "The Best Photographs of the Year." December 22, 2003 issue.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte69535b5d676daf3/69877d612dce015b3c9dd56a/hand_burkha_jn_photoville_140911.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 18, 2014  
### [James Nachtwey: 30 Years in TIME](https://time.com/3693784/james-nachtwey-30-years-in-time/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![December 2013. Za'atari refugee camp, Jordan. Syrian boys carry their daily bread ration supplied by the World Food Programme.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3bd4068184e8699c/6986a436e8524b1fdf604c47/zaatari-james-nachtwey-syrian-refugees-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 23, 2014  
### [Syrian Refugees by James Nachtwey](https://time.com/3399392/syrian-refugees-by-james-nachtwey/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![A raid on suspected meth dealers and users in Thailand's Pattaya City.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta65e524c5e61bfa9/6987887f06f2c138e7334f33/001thai_drug.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 31, 2011  
### [Thailand's Drug Scourge: Photographs by James Nachtwey](https://time.com/3777574/thailands-drug-scourge-photographs-by-james-nachtwey/)  
TIME contract photographer James Nachtwey documents the rising drug trade in Thailand—and the contro...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
* ![Flight medic Sgt. Billy Raines pauses after treating the wounds of a 4-year-old Afghan girl who was severely burned after a pressure cooker exploded in her home in Helmand Province, May 5, 2011.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8859dd98850ea5c2/698788865f570f011db164fe/nachtwey_may16.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 18, 2011  
### [Dispatch from Afghanistan: The Eyes of War](https://time.com/3777217/dispatch-from-afghanistan-war-eyes/)  
Flight medic Sgt. Billy Raines has witnessed more than his share of the grim consequences of war. Bu...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Inside the bomb-blasted ruins of Kabul’s old town, the morning crowd of heroin addicts huddle under woolen blankets to keep the cold out and noxious smoke in.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8cbd5856514fde20/6986829e810bbb4cacc90247/g660_jna_afghanistan2010_13abfab_fnl.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 3, 2011  
### [The Lost Souls of Kabul: Photographs by James Nachtwey](https://time.com/3776778/the-lost-souls-of-kabul-photographs-by-james-nachtwey/)  
Afghanistan is the leading producer of opium poppy, the raw ingredient of heroin. But lost amid U.S....  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![A Hutu man who did not support the genocide had been imprisoned in the concentration camp, starved and attacked with machetes. He managed to survive after he was freed and was placed in the care of the Red Cross, Rwanda, 1994.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a7bda85aa001fb3/6986a620cd68480775096bac/james-nachtwey-rwandan-genocide-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 6, 2011  
### [When the World Turned Its Back: James Nachtwey's Reflections on the Rwandan Genocide](https://time.com/3449593/when-the-world-turned-its-back-james-nachtweys-reflections-on-the-rwandan-genocide/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![A Marine carries an Afghan child, one of two wounded by coalition aircraft during an air support mission.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf46cd449d77f8bb2/6987872fcd68481f6e09a8b9/afghanistan_2010_nachtwey05513.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 24, 2011  
### [Wings of Mercy](https://time.com/3775086/wings-of-mercy/)  
TIME contract photographer James Nachtwey documents the cruelty of war in Afghanistan while embedded...  
[WORLD](/section/world/)

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