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.

I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on 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.