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War Photographer - UK Premiere
Christian Frei
Switzerland
2001
96m
35mm
documentary
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"Every minute I was there, I wanted to flee. I did not want to see this. Would I cut and run, or would I deal with the responsibility of being there with a camera?" - James Nachtwey in one of the world's countless crisis areas, surrounded by suffering, death, violence and chaos, searches for the picture he thinks he can publish. A film about a committed, shy man, who is considered one of the bravest and most important war photographers of our time - but hardly fits the cliché of the hard-boiled war veteran. If we believe Hollywood pictures, war photographers are all macho men and cynical old troopers. How can they think about 'exposure time' in the very moment of dread? James Nachtwey is no rumbling swaggerer, but an unobtrusive man with gray hair and the deliberation of a lecturer in philosophy.
2002 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature
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