I Want My Pictures To Cut Through

Do We Really Need Another Picture Of Paris Hilton Or Naomi Campbell?

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.

The Worst Thing Is To Feel That As A Photographer I Am Benefiting From Someone Else's Tragedy. This Idea Haunts Me. It's Something I Have To Reckon With Every Day Because I Know That If I Ever Allow Genuine Compassion To Be Overtaken By Personal Ambition, I Will Have Sold My Soul. The Only Way I Can Justify My Role Is To Have Respect For The Other Person's Predicament. The Extent To Which I Do That Is The Extent To Which I Become Accepted By The Other; And To That Extent, I Can Accept Myself.

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

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.