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 try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

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

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.

If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

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 want to record history through the destiny of individuals who often belong to the least wealthy classes. I do not want to show war in general, nor history with a capital H, but rather the tragedy of a single man, of a family.