I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.

It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.

War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.

I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was all about selling people, and I got disheartened by the whole industry.

I don't see myself as being injured by a landmine or the Taliban; I was injured by ignorance and hatred. When people do these things, they want to create more hatred. Fight it with love and education.

I am a big believer in love. Love for me is what got me through.