I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

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

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be damned for they bind no wounds. Yet, I reasoned, if my photographs could cause compassionate horror within the viewer, they might also prod the conscience of that viewer into taking action.

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.

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.