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

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

I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

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.

Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there is some kind of value to their job I guess that's how I feel about what I do. There is a social function to documentary photography that is very important and it requires people to take risks.

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.

But everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there - to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they are doing and pay attention to what is going on - to create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media and shake people out of their indifference - to protest and by the strength of that protest to make others protest.