I Became A Photographer In Order To

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, And Create An Impact In People - Upset Them, Shake Them Up, Wake Them Out Of Their Everyday Routine.

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 That History's Deepest Tragedies Concern Not The Great Protagonists Who Set Events In Motion But The Countless Ordinary People Who Are Caught Up In Those Events And Torn Apart By Their Remorseless Fury. 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.

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.

There Is A Job To Be Doneto Record The Truth. I Want To Wake People Up!

I Used To Call Myself A War Photographer. Now I Consider Myself As An Antiwar Photographer.