James Nachtwey & TED

James Nachtwey – possibly the most accomplished, prolific and well-respected photojournalist in the world – will reveal on Friday October 3rd, a project he has been working on with support from a TED grant.

Nachtwey’s work has been incredibly influential to, now several, generations of photographers. As an unprecedented 5-time winner of the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award; his worldwide documentation of war, social inequality and human tragedy is unparalleled in photographic history.

In 2007 he was one of three recipients of the TED Prize, an award that carries with it the help of the TED group in making “one wish to change the world”.

His wish:  ”I’m working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me break it, in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age.”

Please turn off your Seinfeld rerun, visit this site, spend 20 minutes watching the video and help disseminate the work of an important social documentarian.

UPDATE:   The images are out. Click the logo above to view.