Foreclusion

چهارشنبه ۵ اوت ۲۰۰۹

Andrei Tarkovsky

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise

Andrei Tarkovsky

یکشنبه ۲ اوت ۲۰۰۹

War Photographer (2001)

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

Torrent

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I don’t use the formal elements of photography for their own sake. I don’t use what’s happening in the world to make statements about photography, I use photography to make statements about what’s happening in the world. I’m a witness and I want my testimony to be eloquent.

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve to remind us that history's deepest tragedies concern not the great protagonists who set events in motion but the countless ordinary people who are caught up in those events and torn apart by their remorseless fury. I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.

The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon with every day because I know that if I ever allowed genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person's predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other; and to that extent, I can accept myself.