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

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I’m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.

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

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

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.