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I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

— Giles Duley

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren't supposed to get scared.

— Lynsey Addario

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

— Jock Sturges

Many people send me letters in England saying, 'I want to be a war photographer,' and I say, go out into the community that you live in. There's wars going on out there; you don't have to go halfway around the world on an airplane where there are bombs and shells. There are social wars that are worthwhile.

— Don McCullin

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

— Ralph Peters

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

— Steven Spielberg

There's nothing I don't know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you'll get that through looking at one of my pictures.

— Don McCullin

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— James Nachtwey

War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.

— David Douglas Duncan

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

— Anja Niedringhaus

If you've got a camera, go to a war zone and tell a story.

— Rhys Ifans