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James Nachtwey

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Opioid Diaries - James Nachtwey for Time

Holly, detoxing in the Montgomery County Jail in Dayton, Ohio,

on 3 July 2017.

Over the course of 2017,

photographer James Nachtwey set out

to document the opioid crisis in America

through the people on its front lines

Photograph: James Nachtwey

‘The jobs went, the drugs moved in’:

America’s addiction nightmare – in pictures

From opioids to crack,

families have been torn apart by the drug crisis rampaging through the US

– as the stark work of these three photographers shows

G

Thu 3 Jun 2021    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/03/
the-jobs-went-the-drugs-moved-in-americas-addiction-nightmare-in-picture

Opioid Diaries - James Nachtwey for Time

Cheryl Schmidtchen, 67,

being consoled at the funeral for her granddaughter Michaela Gingras

in Manchester, New Hampshire, on 17 September 2017.

Gingras, a heroin user, was 24.

Alongside Time’s deputy director of photography, Paul Moakley,

Nachtwey travelled the country gathering stories from users, families,

first responders and others at the heart of the epidemic

Photograph: James Nachtwey

‘The jobs went, the drugs moved in’:

America’s addiction nightmare – in pictures

From opioids to crack,

families have been torn apart by the drug crisis rampaging through the US

– as the stark work of these three photographers shows

G

Thu 3 Jun 2021    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/03/
the-jobs-went-the-drugs-moved-in-americas-addiction-nightmare-in-pictures

James Nachtwey

http://www.jamesnachtwey.com/

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/
james-nachtwey/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
James_Nachtwey

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jun/03/
the-jobs-went-the-drugs-moved-in-americas-addiction-nightmare-in-pictures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0XqoMX6Wmo

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/nov/16/
criticism-critics-photography-susie-linfield

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/
behind-37/

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/oct/05/
infectiousdiseases.photography

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/
arts/design/28nach.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/oct/05/
infectiousdiseases.photography

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/
arts/design/28nach.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=AGKZhNK_pHw - TED, March 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/24/
magazine/romania-s-lost-children-a-photo-essay-by-james-nachtwey.html

https://time.com/3693784/james-nachtwey-30-years-in-time/ 

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