I never ever think of myself as a war
photographer I think of myself as a
photographer who covers issues
surrounding or so much happens on the
periphery of war it is like the most
extreme of emotions and situations
people are deprived of so much when I’m
in a situation where someone’s dying or
about to die in front of me and the
instinct is to try and save someone when
you want when you’re watching The Life
Drain out of someone you want to help
and I don’t have those tools and so for
me the first thing is always just
feeling really horrible I’m sort of
insufficient because I can’t do anything
the second sort of step is just
realizing that I actually have a
responsibility to document that process
and how do you how do I do it in a
delicate way and in a way that’s not you
know going to be intrusive I try and
cover the emotion and the moment and if
there is any way to make it a bit
beautiful or any way to capture anything
that’s going to pull someone in rather
than turn them away to have them be
curious or to want to know more about
what’s going on that’s what I really try
and do it’s very easy for people to live
in their own world and their shell and
sort of be very comfortable and I like
to kind of make people feel
uncomfortable every so often and realize
what they have I hope I might open the
world a little bit that maybe if they
had an assumption or a preconception
about a society or a group of people
that they might change that notion with
the photos it takes 20 hour work days it
takes going back to the same place ten
times maybe to get the one frame you
want it takes being alone a lot
living in weird hotel rooms in the
middle of nowhere for a month on end it
takes like years of working and you know
doing stuff that you don’t necessarily
want to do but just to hone your vision
and your perspective I have a voice as a
photographer and I can use that voice to
provide a voice for so many other people
I can do this for the rest of my life
you
photographer I think of myself as a
photographer who covers issues
surrounding or so much happens on the
periphery of war it is like the most
extreme of emotions and situations
people are deprived of so much when I’m
in a situation where someone’s dying or
about to die in front of me and the
instinct is to try and save someone when
you want when you’re watching The Life
Drain out of someone you want to help
and I don’t have those tools and so for
me the first thing is always just
feeling really horrible I’m sort of
insufficient because I can’t do anything
the second sort of step is just
realizing that I actually have a
responsibility to document that process
and how do you how do I do it in a
delicate way and in a way that’s not you
know going to be intrusive I try and
cover the emotion and the moment and if
there is any way to make it a bit
beautiful or any way to capture anything
that’s going to pull someone in rather
than turn them away to have them be
curious or to want to know more about
what’s going on that’s what I really try
and do it’s very easy for people to live
in their own world and their shell and
sort of be very comfortable and I like
to kind of make people feel
uncomfortable every so often and realize
what they have I hope I might open the
world a little bit that maybe if they
had an assumption or a preconception
about a society or a group of people
that they might change that notion with
the photos it takes 20 hour work days it
takes going back to the same place ten
times maybe to get the one frame you
want it takes being alone a lot
living in weird hotel rooms in the
middle of nowhere for a month on end it
takes like years of working and you know
doing stuff that you don’t necessarily
want to do but just to hone your vision
and your perspective I have a voice as a
photographer and I can use that voice to
provide a voice for so many other people
I can do this for the rest of my life
you
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