In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.
Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?
I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is guilt in every direction: guilt because I don't practice religion, guilt because I was able to walk away, while this man was dying of starvation or being murdered by another man with a gun. And I am tired of guilt, tired of saying to myself: “I didn't kill that man on that photograph, I didn't starve that child. That's why I want to photograph landscapes and flowers. I am sentencing myself to peace.
I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.
Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.
Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.
I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.
Do you want your name to live forever? You fool! Forget your name, try to save yourself! What use there is for you, if your name lives and you die? You fool!
If you have no enemies, you have no character.
Roxy, stop being so obnoxious!" -Joy "I'm never obnoxious; I'm just concerned. " -Roxy