I Have Been A Witness, And These

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 Kind Of Slow. I Let Them Know That I Respect Them.

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 Interpretation Of Events.

If I Can Upset People, If I Can Ruin Their Day, Then I Have Done My Job.

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.

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 Guess That's How I Feel About What I Do. There Is A Social Function To Documentary Photography That Is Very Important And It Requires People To Take Risks.