You Are Never Freer Than In That

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 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 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.

If Im Feeling Outraged, Grief, Disbelief, Frustration, Sympathy, That Gets Channeled Through Me And Into My Pictures And Hopefully Transmitted To The Viewer.

For Me, The Strength Of Photography Lies In Its Ability To Evoke Humanity. If War Is An Attempt To Negate Humanity, Then Photography Can Be Perceived As The Opposite Of War.