Wim Wenders – Eulogy for James Nachtwey at the occasion of the Dresden Prize | burn magazine

Wim Wenders – Eulogy for James Nachtwey at the occasion of the Dresden Prize | burn magazine: The photographs exhibited in the Dresden Museum of Military History represent a small selection of the many pictures that James Nachtwey has taken in over thirty years as a traveler and documentarian. They were taken in Afghanistan, in the Balkans, in Ruanda, Chechenya, Darfur, at Ground Zero in New York and in Iraq.



This list could easily be extended to include images from Sudan, from Northern Ireland, from Romania, and so on, and so on…

James Nachtwey was in “The Heart of Darkness”, to quote the title of Joseph Conrad’s famous novel. If ever someone actually was there, it’s him! One might think that this darkness shows through, that its grim, depressing reflection makes its way through the photographer’s eye, weighing down his heart, his soul, his mind, his spirit.