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.

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

None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

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.

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!