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!

If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.

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.

I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon with every day because I know that if I ever allow genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person's predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other; and to that extent, I can accept myself.

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