Ethics and War Series: War Photographer (Academy Award Nomination for "Best Documentary Feature")
War Photographer is director Christian Frei's 2001 film that followed photojournalist James Nachtwey. Natchtwey started work as a newspaper photographer in New Mexico in 1976 and in 1980, he moved to New York to begin a career as a freelance magazine photographer. His first foreign assignment was to cover civil strife in Northern Ireland in 1981 during the IRA hunger strike. Since then, Nachtwey has devoted himself to documenting wars, conflicts and critical social issues. He has worked on extensive photographic essays in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, South Africa, Russia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Romania, Brazil and the United States. The film received an Academy Award Nomination for "Best Documentary Feature" and won twelve International Filmfestivals.
Faculty talk back led by: Brendan Fay (Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford)
The Ethics and War series is sponsored by:
The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in SocietyThe Stanford Humanities Center The Center for International Security and Cooperation [CISAC] The Stanford Creative Writing ProgramThe Program on Human Rights Stanford Summer TheaterThe Program on Global JusticeStanford Continuing StudiesTaube Center for Jewish Studies Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa)The John S. Knight Fellowship Program