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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.
When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.
I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.
My life has been devoted to peacemaking.
I fight to take a good photograph every single time.
I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.
Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.