James Nachtwey’s work in Luxembourg
James Nachtwey’s work in Luxembourg. In order to show a maximum amount of photographs, this year’s exhibition is organized in cooperation with the CCRN, so that you may see different parts of his work in two spaces:
- at Galerie Clairefontaine, Espace 2 (21, rue du St.Esprit), and
- at the Abbaye de Neumünster in Luxembourg Grund (28, rue Münster)
Both exhibitions will continue from Tuesday, November 12, 2007 to January 9, 2008.
Please pay attention to the different opening hours!
James Nachtwey came to Luxembourg for the first time in 2005 to run a workshop, lecture and exhibition for photomeetings luxembourg. He will be back during his exhibition for a round table discussion in December. Because of his many assignments the exact date will only be known shortly before his arrival. We will keep you informed.
« Anti-war photographer» as he always likes to explain, James Nachtwey has studied Art History and Political Science. Self-taught, he started out as a newspaper photographer in New Mexico and began his career as a freelance magazine photographer in 1980. Since then, he has ceaselessly covered all the major conflicts of the last 27 years, from Northern Ireland in 1981 to the latest developments in Iraq. He worked on extensive photographic essays in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Indonisia, Thailand, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, South Africa, Russia, Bosnia, Chechnia, Kosovo, Romania, Brazil, and the United States. With echoes of William Eugene Smith and Robert Capa, from whose images he has learnt the gulf between reality and political debate, James Nachtwey considers it a great honour to continue the fight concerning critical social and political issues.
James Nachtwey, Afghanistan (James Nachtwey/VII)
Contract photographer with TIME-magazine since 1984, he has received numerous honours and prizes for his documentary work. The latest prize was the TED-Prize in spring 2007, on which occasion he gave a talk on his decades as a photojournalist (which you may download from the internet): A slideshow of his photographs, beginning in 1981 in Northern Ireland, reveals two parallel themes in his work. First, as he says: "The frontlines of contemporary wars are right where people live." Street violence, famine, disease: he has photographed all these modern WMD. Second, when a photo catches the world's attention, it can truly drive action and change. In his TED statement, he asks for help in gaining access to a story that needs to be told, and developing a new, digital way to show these photos to the world.
James Nachtwey, Darfour (James Nachtwey/VII)
contact : galerie.clairefontaine@pt.lu www.galerie-clairefontaine.lu
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