I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

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

Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling way.

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.

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

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

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.