You Are Never Freer Than In That

Do We Really Need Another Picture Of Paris Hilton Or Naomi Campbell?

[photography] Puts A Human Face On Issues Which, From Afar, Can Appear Abstract Or Ideological Or Monumental In Their Global Impact.

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.

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

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.