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If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

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I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

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Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

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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.

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I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

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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.

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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.

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If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.

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I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

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When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: March 14th, 1948

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