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• For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then…
• If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the…
• There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!
• [Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.
• I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope…
• I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.
• Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way,…
• I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must…
• I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social…
• I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
• I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.
• If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

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