for a lot of photographers the
photograph is kind of the ultimate goal
but for me it’s the start of the process
once we have this picture where can we
take it who can we show it to how can we
make the horror that we see in these
pictures stop it’s not the individual
photograph it’s what you do with it and
who you engage with it that makes it
powerful historically with Indy I see
we’ve had more than 20 years of war that
have been centered around the access to
natural resources that we in the West
use every day whether we use them in our
mobile phones or whether we use them in
computers we’re part of these walls we
create these walls due to the demands
that we have within our own societies
the reason photography is an essential
tool in this message is that sometimes
there is no way to communicate about
that 12 year-old child soldier better
than me putting his life right in front
of you me putting him on your kitchen
table or on your computer screen so that
you can see this young boy 12 years old
with a Kalashnikov on his back cycling
down a road who can’t even touch the
pedals of the bike that he’s stolen at
gunpoint all of these little details you
you can only get with a photograph you
can only get by engaging with that image
you could only see the youthfulness of
his face contrasted by this gun that
he’s pointing at you through the
photograph that you only get with this
medium and that’s why it’s so important
because without that shock without that
engagement without that initial anger
that starts at that point when you turn
a page and you see that image of that
child holding a gun when actually he
should be playing soccer with your child
who’s 11 he shouldn’t be walking around
with
and I want all these people that see
these images on their kitchen table or
on their computer to be as angry as I am
when I’m taking them I want them to ask
and scream for change when they see
these images and that can only happen I
think with the photograph
photograph is kind of the ultimate goal
but for me it’s the start of the process
once we have this picture where can we
take it who can we show it to how can we
make the horror that we see in these
pictures stop it’s not the individual
photograph it’s what you do with it and
who you engage with it that makes it
powerful historically with Indy I see
we’ve had more than 20 years of war that
have been centered around the access to
natural resources that we in the West
use every day whether we use them in our
mobile phones or whether we use them in
computers we’re part of these walls we
create these walls due to the demands
that we have within our own societies
the reason photography is an essential
tool in this message is that sometimes
there is no way to communicate about
that 12 year-old child soldier better
than me putting his life right in front
of you me putting him on your kitchen
table or on your computer screen so that
you can see this young boy 12 years old
with a Kalashnikov on his back cycling
down a road who can’t even touch the
pedals of the bike that he’s stolen at
gunpoint all of these little details you
you can only get with a photograph you
can only get by engaging with that image
you could only see the youthfulness of
his face contrasted by this gun that
he’s pointing at you through the
photograph that you only get with this
medium and that’s why it’s so important
because without that shock without that
engagement without that initial anger
that starts at that point when you turn
a page and you see that image of that
child holding a gun when actually he
should be playing soccer with your child
who’s 11 he shouldn’t be walking around
with
and I want all these people that see
these images on their kitchen table or
on their computer to be as angry as I am
when I’m taking them I want them to ask
and scream for change when they see
these images and that can only happen I
think with the photograph
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