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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.

I Want My Pictures To Cut Through Political Abstractions... And Make A Connection On A Human Level.

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

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.

I Became A Photographer In Order To Be A War Photographer, And A Photographer Involved In What I Thought Were Critical Social Issues. From The Very Beginning This Was My Goal.