I Would That My Photographs Might Be,

I Was After A Set Of Pictures, So That When People Looked At Them They Would Say, ‘this Is War’-that The People Who Were In The War Would Believe That I Had Truthfully Captured What They Had Gone Through I Worked In The Framework That War Is Horrible. I Want To Carry On What I Have Tried To Do In These Pictures. War Is A Concentrated Unit In The World And These Things Are Clearly And Cleanly Seen. Things Like Race Prejudice, Poverty, Hatred And Bigotry Are Sprawling Things In Civilian Life, And Not So Easy To Define As War.

The World Just Does Not Fit Conveniently Into The Format Of A 35mm Camera.

Many Claim I Am A Photographer Of Tragedy. In The Greater Sense I Am Not, For Though I Often Photograph Where The Tragic Emotion Is Present, The Result Is Almost Invariably Affirmative.

I Think Photojournalism Is Documentary Photography With A Purpose.

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.