Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.
I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.
For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.
There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!
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 you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.
But everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there - to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they are doing and pay attention to what is going on - to create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media and shake people out of their indifference - to protest and by the strength of that protest to make others protest.
I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until I was about sixteen, I thought I might have a shot as a major league baseball player. But once I hit my full adolescence I lost all interest in that. I discovered, in rapid succession, books, girls, alcohol and tobacco, and I've never turned back. Those are the four things I'm most interested in.
Spring is like a perhaps hand
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.