Biography
Edward Nachtrieb is an award-winning journalist, photographer, writer, producer, and director/cameraman whose background includes documentaries, television series, public service outreach, and independent film.
Nachtrieb began his career in the 1980s as a photojournalist for Reuters News Pictures in Asia. He covered stories throughout the region, including the Philippine’s People Power Revolution, political unrest in Korea, and refugees escaping war in Sri Lanka. As Reuters Chief Photographer in China, he smuggled film out of Tibet, helped uncover previously unreported unrest in Xinjiang, and led a photo team that covered the pro-democracy movement from the first student protests to the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square.
Back in the United States in the 1990s, he formed a production company in New Mexico with a portfolio that included award-winning television commercials, public service documentaries, and outreach programs for the State of New Mexico and Native American tribes. A...