I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Your belief system saturates the space around you.

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.