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.

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

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

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.

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.