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

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

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

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.

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

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.