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.

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

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.

Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.

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 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.