For forty years James Nachtwey, universally considered the heir of Robert Capa, has photographed pain, injustice, violence and death. What sustains him in this descent is the certainty that photojournalism, at its highest, can still affect public opinion as a first draft of a later history book. "My pictures are my testimony. The events I have documented must not be forgotten and must not be repeated." The extraordinary beauty of his pictures is a tool of struggle, a gesture of compassion before scenes such as the bedroom in Mostar, in Bosnia, where a sniper fires from the window, the famine in Darfur, tuberculosis, the damage caused by Agent Orange in Vietnam, the survivor of a Hutu camp in Rwanda with a scar on his face, the Second Intifada on the West Bank. In his images it is humanity that speaks, wounded by violence, devastated by disease, hunger and a nature that rises against man’s claim to control. With texts by the mayor of Milan and the director of Palazzo Reale and by the curator Roberto Koch, the book offers a broad selection of his most significant reportages: from El Salvador to Gaza, from Indonesia to Japan, by way of Romania, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal and the United States (including his extraordinary testimony of 11 September 2001), closing with a very topical reportage on immigration in Europe: the harshness of war, the violence of terrorism, the empty gaze of despair.