Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using it, has more influence on public thinking than any other branch of photography.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of its doing to the minds and bodies of men; and, that my photographs might be a powerful emotional catalyst to the reasoning which would help this vile and criminal stupidity from beginning again.

... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

My pictures are complex and so am I.