The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

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.

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.

Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the work The print and a proper one is the only completed photograph, whether it is specifically shaded for reproduction, or for a museum wall.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.