James Nachtwey awarded TED prize for work on War and disease

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Last year, acclaimed war photographer James Nachtwey was honored with the 2007 Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Prize for his work documenting images of war, disease and political unrest across the globe for over 25 years. Along with President Bill Clinton and Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson, Nachtwey was awarded $100,000 to help him bring "one wish to change the world" to fruition.

James' wish was to share an underreported worldwide story, prove the power of news photography in the digital age and raise awareness about a global health issue that has the potential to become a worldwide pandemic — Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB).

Nachtwey will unveil the images of the disease he hopes to combat at a special screening at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. His poignant images will be used to offer awareness about the worldwide spread of tuberculosis through a multimedia campaign on all seven continents, in 50 cities around the globe, and across the web. You can find out more information about screenings and the images at www.xdrtb.org.

The webpage said "creating awareness of extremely drug resistance TB".

I just X-Rayed two walk in patients with active TB tonight, they are coughing all along and their radiographs show the disease, it is scary, we are so close to it.

X Ray Photography and Prints

Cremation
I work everyday with these X ray images and did a dance video of a mechanical doll (that shut her eyes when you lay her flat) many many years ago. The video is somehow embedded in the sea of video 8. :-(
Here I found that someone had done a great job with these beautiful images.
The artist duo have written a statement of their works.:

Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand create sensory immersion environments that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. Current findings, particularly regarding wave phenomena, are employed by the artists to examine questions of perception and perpetuality. Such investigations are salient because the scientific picture of the world, which serves as the basis for contemporary thought, still cannot encompass the unrecordable workings of consciousness.