I Used To Call Myself A War

Photojournalists Know The Horrors Of War Can Only Be Exposed At Close Range. Kodak Film.

[photography] Puts A Human Face On Issues Which, From Afar, Can Appear Abstract Or Ideological Or Monumental In Their Global Impact.

It Is Very Hard To Say Where You're Going Until You Get There. That Kind Of Thing Is Based Very Much On Instinct. As A Photographer, One Of The Most Important Lessons I Have Learnt Is That You Have To Learn To Listen To And Trust Your Own Instinct. It Has Helped To Guide Me - This Far At Least.

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 Pictures That Were Coming From Vietnam Were Showing Us What Was Really Happening On The Ground Level. It Was In Contradiction To What Our Political And Military Leaders Were Telling Us. They Were Straight Forward Documentary Images. A Powerful Indictment Of The War, Of How Cruel And Unjust It Was. When I Finally Decided What To Do With My Life, It Was To Follow In That Tradition.