If You Make An Honest Picture Of

I'm Half Deaf. I Have Nerve Damage And A Constant Ringing In Both Of My Ears, And There Are Certain Times And Conditions When I Can Hardly Hear At All.

But Everyone Cannot Be There, And That Is Why Photographers Go There - To Show Them, To Reach Out And Grab Them And Make Them Stop What They Are Doing And Pay Attention To What Is Going On - To Create Pictures Powerful Enough To Overcome The Diluting Effects Of The Mass Media And Shake People Out Of Their Indifference - To Protest And By The Strength Of That Protest To Make Others Protest.

If You Make An Honest Picture Of War, It Will Be An Antiwar Photograph.

There Is A Job To Be Doneto Record The Truth. I Want To Wake People Up!

I Began After College, About 1972. I Began To Teach Myself Photography. I Went To Work For A Local Newspaper For Four Years As A Kind Of Basic Training.