If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job.

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job.

There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!

I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.

None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.