The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.

Photography was my choice of weapons.

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.