I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of melancholy that is induced by witnessing at close quarters such intractable situations of conflict and joylessness.

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking the same questions: Who am I? What am I supposed to be? What have I done?

I don't want to die for a few pictures. I want to live for every sunrise I can clap my eyes on I want to see my family get older I want to see the world try and get a bit more peaceful and understanding, which unfortunately I don't think I'll ever see.

Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.