I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

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.

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.

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

If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job.

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

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