WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

Year: 2002
USA: First Run Icarus Films
Cast: James Nachtwey
Director: Christian Frei
Country: Switzerland
USA Release Date: 19 June 2002 (Limited Release - New York)


Synopsis

"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, photographer James Nachtwey 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 cliche of the hard-boiled war veteran.