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

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.

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.

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.

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.