Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.

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.

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.

I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

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