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Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.
I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.
I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.
In so many countries, Western journalists are viewed simply as dollar signs. We're ransom objects.
You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.
I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.
I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.
I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.
You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.
I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.
Most of the people I know, their marriages went down the drain, like mine - something I am not proud of.
The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.
It is a very powerful feeling to know that my work is affecting people and to hear it from them directly.
I started freelancing for the Associated Press. I had a great mentor there who sort of taught me everything.
Together we can prevent genocide from happening again. Together we can make a better future for our children.
Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.
The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.
I don't consider myself a politician or a hero. I'm a messenger. If Cambodia is to survive, she needs many voices.
The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.
I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.
Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?
I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.
Don't expect things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the people you are photographing. Don't be concerned about money.
I try not to get caught up in how our society is so inundated with images, and stay very focused on the work that I'm doing.
Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur.
It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.
I knew that my interest lied in international stories. I was interested in how women were living under the Taliban, for example.
I fall in love with almost every person I photograph. I want to hear their stories. I want to get close. This is personal for me.
I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.
Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.
Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life.
The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist.
[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.
When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.
The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?
Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.
Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.
The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all.
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.
I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.
I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.
For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.
I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.
I come from a big family of hairdressers; they didn't read newspapers. I would say, 'I'm off to Afghanistan...' and they would say, 'Have fun!'
Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.
I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.
I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.
If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.
You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way.
[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.