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Today's Guest Editor: A Witness and His Testimony
Friday, October 10, 2008
James Nachtwey has spent his life documenting some of the
most pressing conflicts, wars and critical social issues of our time
, but today takes on the comparatively safe task of guest editing the YouTube homepage. Since his first assignment covering the troubles in Northern Ireland in 1981 – at the height of the IRA hunger strikes -- he has traveled from the West Bank to Rwanda and from Bosnia to Afghanistan, raising awareness of the human impact of the situations he encountered in the click of a shutter.
In 2007, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to society, Nachtwey was awarded the
TED Prize
: $100,000 to realize 'one wish' to change the world.
He opted
to "break a story that the world needs to know about in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age." Following this he spent 18 months documenting the ramifications and rapid spread of "extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis" (XDR-TB). Learn more about his undertaking here:
For more on why the photographer chose to launch a global awareness campaign about TB, see his special message to the YouTube community:
As today's guest editor, Nachtwey has selected compelling examples from other YouTube users that exhibit the power of film to relate a story and spread the word. These YouTube users -- by turning their cameras on subjects like the
conflict in Africa
, the
human rights violations in Myanmar
, and the
HIV crisis in rural America
-- are following Nachtwey's lead and, ultimately, are changing the world through the force of their efforts and film-making expertise.
Here's to them – and making wishes come true,
Ramya R.
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