James Nachtwey

James Nachtwhey was born in Syracuse, New York. He was raised in Massachusetts, went to Leomenster high school and from 1966 to 1970 he attended to Dartmouth College. There, he studied political science and art history. He was mainly influenced by the American Civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. However, in the photography area, he was self-taught. After graduating from college, in 1976, he started working as a photographer in a newspaper company in Mexico. After moving to New York in 1980, he became a freelance photographer. From then on, he has been working as a photographer for TIME since 1984. He also worked for Black Star from 1980 to 1985. After that, he became a member of Magnum Photos from 1986 to 2001. He also worked with Thomas E. Franklin in the World Trade Center where he made the famous photograph called “Rising the Flag at Ground Zero.” From then on, he concentrated working with the subject of the 911 attack and also the Sudan Conflict on civilians. Nachtwhey uses Canon lenses and a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II as his camera.