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I've Been With Life Now For Seventeen Years And I Have Written Several Articles For Them And Will Be Doing More Writing And Do At Least Two Assignments A Year Besides My Writing.

I Was Born To A Black Childhood Of Confusion And Poverty. The Memory Of That Beginning Influences My Work Today, It Is Impossible Now To Photograph A Hungry Child Without Remembering The Hunger Of My Old Childhood.

I'd Become Sort Of Involved In Things That Were Happening To People. No Matter What Color They Be, Whether They Be Indians, Or Negroes, The Poor White Person Or Anyone Who Was I Thought More Or Less Getting A Bad Shake.

The Camera Could Be A Very Powerful Instrument Against Discrimination, Against Poverty, Against Racism.

The Subject Matter Is So Much More Important Than The Photographer.