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

You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.

The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what our political and military leaders were telling us. They were straight forward documentary images. A powerful indictment of the war, of how cruel and unjust it was. When I finally decided what to do with my life, it was to follow in that tradition.

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.

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.

Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.