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'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

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

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

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

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?