Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
There are very few jobs where you're held up to public scrutiny.
My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can.
Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.
I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.
My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.
I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.