Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.

Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

I'm lucky - I don't feel any pressure.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.