From 1 December 2017 to 4 March 2018 the exhibition James Nachtwey. Memory will be exposed to Royal Palace di Milano.
The exhibition offers an impressive individual and collective reflection on the theme of war. Curated by Roberto Koch and by James Nachtwey himself, Memoria represents an original production and the largest retrospective ever conceived of his work. Promoted and produced by the Municipality of Milan – Culture, Palazzo Reale, Civita, Contrasto and GAmm Giunti, the exhibition has Digital Imaging Partner Canon and is realized with the support of Fondazione Cariplo and Fondazione Forma for the Photography.
Organized into seventeen sections, the two hundred images displayed in the various rooms offer the visitor a wide selection of James Nachtwey's most significant reportages. From El Salvador to Gaza, from Indonesia to Japan, via Romania, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal, the United States (including the extraordinary testimony of the attack on 'September 11, 2001) and many other countries and ends with an extremely current report on immigration in Europe: Memoria collects the shots with which the photographer tells the crudeness of war, the violence of terrorism, the empty gaze of despair.
Photo: James Nachtwey, World Trade Center South Tower Collapse. New York, USA, 2001 © James Nachtwey
