I Try To Take What Voice I

...and Each Time I Pressed The Shutter Release It Was A Shouted Condemnation Hurled With The Hope That The Picture Might Survive Through The Years, With The Hope That They Might Echo Through The Minds Of Men In The Future - Causing Them Caution And Remembrance And Realization.

I Am An Idealist. I Often Feel I Would Like To Be An Artist In An Ivory Tower. Yet It Is Imperative That I Speak To People, So I Must Desert That Ivory Tower. To Do This, I Am A Journalist - A Photojournalist. But I Am Always Torn Between The Attitude Of The Journalist, Who Is A Recorder Of Facts, And The Artist, Who Is Often Necessarily At Odds With The Facts. My Principle Concern Is For Honesty, Above All Honesty With Myself.

In Music I Still Prefer The Minor Key, And In Printing I Like The Light Coming From The Dark. I Like Pictures That Surmount The Darkness, And Many Of My Photographs Are That Way. It Is The Way I See Photographically. For Practical Reasons, I Think It Looks Better In Print Too.

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.

With Considerable Soul Searching, That To The Utmost Of My Ability, I Have Let Truth Be The Prejudice.