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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 Can Be Perceived As The Opposite Of War.

You Are Never Freer Than In That Moment When You Decide To Expose Yourself To Sniper Fire.

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.

I Don't Believe There's Any Such Thing As Objective Reality. It's Only Reality As We Experience It.