You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire..

I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer..

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact..

There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!.

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph..

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 traini….

Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there is some kind of value to their job I gu….

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing..

If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job..

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once..

The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon w….

None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpreta….

The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what our politic….

I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve to remind us ….

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..

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….

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 al….

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..

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived….

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk ki….