Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?

I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

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

Do we really need another picture of Paris Hilton or Naomi Campbell?

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

I want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes. I do not want to show war in general, nor history with a capital H, but rather the tragedy of a single man, of a family.

It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.