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Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money.

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I didn't want my gender to determine whether or not I could cover breaking news.

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I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq - I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 - that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there.

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Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.

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You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way.

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I come from a big family of hairdressers; they didn't read newspapers. I would say, 'I'm off to Afghanistan...' and they would say, 'Have fun!'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: November 13th, 1973

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