Nachtwey Looks Where Others Turn Away
John K. Cooley '49, ABC Middle East correspondent, honored with the George Polk Award for Career Achievement
Ray Powers '49, discoverer and editor of the hook upon which the Oscar-winning Leaving Las was based
Jim Lust '59, honored with the 1996 Time Magazine Quality Dealer Award at the National Automotive Dealers Association convention
P. John Seward '61, named executive vice president of the American Medical Association
Day O. Mount '62, appointed U.S. ambassador to Iceland
James Estes '67, designer of a house featured in Fine Home-building magazine's annual issue on houses
Ted White '70. topping the. charts with Christian country songs "Jesus Is a Cowboy" and "Rodeo Angel"
Bill Nisen '73, appointed president of McGraw-Hill Home Interactive
Robert Yasi '76, winner of a $33-million lottery in San Diego County
Harriotte Meyer '78, bronze-medalwinner at the Cross-CountryMasters National 10K Classic:
Jamie Trowbridge '82, namedpublishing director of Yankee!magazine
Dru van Hengel '85. rower on the U.S. Olympic four-woman Kayak team
photojournalist Jim Nachtwey '70 won his second World Press Photo of the Year Award with this photograph of a wealthy Hutu mutilated with machetes by Interahamwe militia because he was suspected of Tutsi sympathies in Rwanda. "My photos are about the human dimension of war, conflict, and social issues," Nachtwey says. He takes aim where others look away.
In the last 15 years he has covered more than two dozen conflicts andwon numerous awards, including four Robert Capa Gold Medals, sixMagazine Photographer of the Year awards from the National PressPhotographers Association, and two international Center of Photographyawards. A retrospective of his work hung in the Hood Museum last year.He has published two books of images, Deeds of War and The Inferno.Nachtwey is currently turning his lens homeward, shooting prison campsand chain gangs in a study of violence in America.
