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

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

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 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?

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

I want to be the toughest photographer in the world.

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.