WAR PHOTOGRAPHER

James Nachtwey is probably the most famous war photographer in the world. Afghanistan and Bosnia, Rwanda and El Salvador, Somalia and South Africa: for 40 years he’s taken pictures when others have fled, and as a result determined much of our own ideas of war and crisis. In his Oscar-nominated portrait from 2001, the Swiss documentary filmmaker Christian Frei shows the man behind the camera, who in the midst of the most gruesome war incidents retains his stoic calm.  A mini video camera, mounted on his camera, allows particular insight into Nachtweys methods.