How shallow can we get?

I always loved works from photographers like David duChemin, Eli Reinholsten just to name a few for my love for the bright and sparkly.
So whatever happens when I cannot sleep at night and I just want to drown myself with reportage images?

Well, I just googled up James Nachtwey a photographer whose name had been stuck in my head for an eternity.

I first came to know about James Nachtwey's work through the Narrative photography class I crashed at the first half of the year. He is a war/ conflict photojournalist and I remember how compelling his images were in that video I watched. I can still remember one particular image of his whereby there was this man running away from a mob that was chasing him with blood streaking down his head.
The point is, to make that image, Nachtwey ran together with the man away from this mob who was trying to kill him... At that point I remember telling myself that he was crazy.
But that crazy man told a story. A story on how cruel war is.
Some of you know that for certain reasons, I supported Bush and his war. I was so wrong.
War is a really cruel affair where countries are raped and things taken. War is theft and every other sin is a variable of theft.

Back to James Nachtwey.
One of his recent projects was documenting the Haiti earthquake. Not a pretty sight and with images like his, I am starting to lose hope that that idiot just hit his head somewhere and lost his memories but is alive and well. His images were really compelling but his other project: "Struggle to Live -the fight against TB" just blew me away.
I can't sleep and haunting images like that does not help one bit T_T



I really cannot find/ dig out/ regurgitate words to describe the images in the video.
Well, words like 'brilliant', 'haunting' keeps floating through but I am just at loss for words.

I know that Nachtwey uses a 35mm and shoots on film so to get those compelling images, how close was he? I mean just look at the needles, hands, eyes and whatever. Technical brilliance aside, I am just at loss for words of the way he told the story.
This is really the kind of story that hits me. That while I am a partial insomniac, there are people out there dying, starving, suffering. There are people out there who needs the attention and compassion of the world but no one is listening.
There are so many stories out there but are they heard?

I know that I might look like I was insane when I told Sara I wanted to go over to Haiti in March. She told me that now is not the right time. That when I have more experience and when I am stronger, she would open her arms for me to join her in making hell a better place.
I will wait.



Sami Yusuf's charity single. The images and song will speak for itself so listen, pray and if possible, help.

For now, I shall attempt to sleep.
Goodnight.